Senior Cloud Architect — AI-Driven Multi-Cloud

Leidos

Virginia

Hybrid

USD 131,000 - 237,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Leidos is seeking a highly skilled Cloud Architect/Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms in a fast-paced, hybrid/multi-cloud environment. You will ensure high availability, security, performance, and cost-efficiency while collaborating with cross-functional teams to support growth.

The role emphasizes Generative AI infrastructure, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and modern container orchestration (Kubernetes).

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field with 12+ years of experience, or Master’s with 10+ years.
12+ years of cloud architecture, engineering, and operations experience; 4+ years in senior/lead role.
Strong experience designing hybrid/multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) at enterprise scale.
Proven expertise with Generative AI infrastructure including RAG pipelines and vector databases.
Hands-on experience with IaC tools: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, Bicep/ARM, Ansible.

Responsibilities

Drive enterprise technology vision with long-term blueprints and engineering standards for cloud tech.
Design scalable, secure, and resilient hybrid cloud architectures.
Architect and manage core cloud networking components (VPCs, VNets, subnets, gateways).
Implement IaC for provisioning and config management (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
Implement cloud security controls, encryption, monitoring, and compliance frameworks.
Optimize cost and utilization via tagging, rightsizing, and savings plans.
Set up monitoring and observability with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana.
Support disaster recovery, high availability, and incident response.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Network, Security, Dev, Ops.