Senior Cloud Architect

Leidos Inc; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to design secure, scalable cloud platforms for mission-critical government applications in accredited environments. This hands-on role spans software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and government platform teams to move solutions to production.

The ideal candidate combines deep cloud engineering with experience navigating authorization constraints and establishing reusable cloud architecture patterns across products and teams, including landing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field with 12+ years of experience.
• Extensive hands-on Microsoft Azure architecture and engineering in government/cloud environments.
• Experience delivering production systems in U.S. Government/DoD or regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of RMF/ATO, zero trust, security boundaries, inherited controls.
• Experience designing landing zones, IaC, CI/CD, and secure deployment patterns.
• Experience integrating cloud/enterprise/restricted environments with APIs and data movement.
• Proven ability to create reusable cloud architecture patterns and standards.
• Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure government cloud architectures, including landing zones, networking, identity, storage, databases, and hosting.
• Translate requirements into scalable, secure solutions balancing security, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Build, review, test, and troubleshoot critical cloud components (IaC, configurations, deployment automation, IAM, networking).
• Lead resolution of complex technical issues across cloud environments using logs, metrics, and root-cause analysis.
• Design for authorization from the start, maximize reuse of authorized services and inherited controls.
• Establish secure deployment patterns with CI/CD, artifact promotion, and environment progression.
• Create reusable engineering assets, runbooks, and troubleshooting guidance for adoption.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership ensuring production readiness, observability, and cost planning.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure

RMF/DoD

CI/CD

IaC

Gov cloud

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12+ years

Tools

Azure

Cosmos DB

Data Factory

API Management

Key Vault

Entra ID

Azure Monitor

Azure Policy

Job description

Description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to design and establish secure, scalable cloud platforms for mission-critical applications operating in accredited U.S. Government environments. This is a hands‑on role working across software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity/RMF, data, and government platform teams to move solutions from development into secure, supportable production environments.

The ideal candidate combines deep cloud engineering expertise with experience navigating government authorization constraints. The role will establish reusable cloud architecture patterns across products and teams, including landing zones, cloud services, identity, connectivity, deployment, and environment progression-reducing duplicated effort and accelerating delivery into accredited environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure government cloud architectures, including landing zones, networking, identity, storage, databases, application hosting, monitoring, and other required cloud services.
• Translate application, data, integration, performance, security, and operational requirements into scalable, supportable solutions, making tradeoffs among security, reliability, performance, cost, and delivery time explicit.
• Personally build, review, test, and troubleshoot critical cloud components, including infrastructure-as-code, cloud configurations, deployment automation, identity and access controls, networking, observability, and system integrations.
• Lead resolution of complex technical problems across application and cloud environments, using logs, metrics, traces, targeted testing, and systematic root‑cause analysis to validate solutions and reduce recurrence.
• Design for authorization from the start, maximizing reuse of authorized services, inherited controls, and existing government platform capabilities while partnering with cybersecurity/RMF teams on boundaries, data flows, interfaces, ports/protocols, and interconnections.
• Establish secure deployment and integration patterns with engineering and DevSecOps teams, including CI/CD, artifact promotion, configuration management, automated validation, environment progression, APIs, data movement, and multi‑enclave connectivity.
• Create reusable engineering assets, including tested infrastructure‑as‑code modules, reference implementations, architecture patterns, deployment templates, technical standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guidance that can be adopted across products and teams.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership through delivery and operations, mentoring engineers through implementation and troubleshooting while ensuring production readiness, observability, resiliency, recovery, rollback, supportability, and capacity/cost planning.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Extensive hands‑on Microsoft Azure architecture and engineering experience, including networking, identity and access management, PaaS services, application hosting, data services, security, monitoring, and resiliency.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering production systems in U.S. Government, DoD, or similarly regulated cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of government cloud security and authorization requirements, including zero trust, least privilege, security boundaries, inherited controls, and DoD RMF/ATO considerations.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud landing zones, infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, environment progression, and secure software deployment patterns.
• Experience architecting complex integrations across cloud, enterprise, and restricted environments, including APIs, identity, data movement, network boundaries, and multi‑enclave solutions.
• Demonstrated experience developing reusable cloud architecture patterns and technical standards that support multiple applications, products, or engineering teams.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the U.S. Government security clearance and privileged environment access required for assigned work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating solutions in classified government cloud environments, including SIPR or equivalent.
• Deep experience with Azure PaaS and data services, particularly Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, API Management, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience architecting enterprise data, knowledge graph, analytics, or AI‑enabled platforms in secure cloud environments.
• Experience establishing cloud governance and FinOps practices across multiple subscriptions, products, or programs.

Advanced Microsoft Azure architecture or security certifications.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting

September 18, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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