Senior Cloud Architect

Leidos LLC; United States; Remote; USD 142,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to design secure, scalable cloud platforms for mission-critical applications in accredited U.S. Government environments.

This hands-on role spans software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, data, and government platform teams to move solutions into production. Responsibilities include designing secure cloud architectures, implementing landing zones, IaC, CI/CD, and secure deployment patterns, while mentoring engineers for production readiness and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Extensive hands-on Microsoft Azure architecture and engineering experience, including networking, IAM, PaaS, data services, security, monitoring, and resiliency.
• Production systems experience 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, RMF/ATO.
• Experience designing landing zones, IaC, CI/CD, environment progression, and secure deployment patterns.
• Experience architecting complex integrations across cloud, enterprise, and restricted environments.
• Experience developing reusable cloud architecture patterns and technical 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, and databases.
• Translate requirements into scalable, secure solutions with tradeoffs among security, reliability, and cost.
• Build, review, test, and troubleshoot cloud components such as IaC, deployment automation, IAM, networking, and observability.
• Lead resolution of complex technical problems using logs, metrics, and root‑cause analysis.
• Design for authorization from the start, aligning with RMF/ATO controls and bounded interfaces.
• Establish secure deployment patterns with CI/CD, artifact promotion, config management, and multi‑enclave connectivity.
• Create reusable engineering assets and runbooks adopted across products and teams.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership through delivery and operations.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Security compliance

RMF/ATO

Networking

Observability

IaC

Government cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/related

Job 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.

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 only and 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.

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 $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

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Commitment and Diversity

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.