Senior Cloud Architect — DoD Multi-Cloud (IL4/IL5), Secret

Leidos; Universal City (TX); On-site; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to serve as the senior technical architecture lead for the DoD A1 Multi-Cloud Ecosystem, covering AWS GovCloud IL4/IL5 and Azure environments. You will own integrated cloud architectures, drive roadmaps, and guide CSP integration while ensuring security and compliance standards.

You will mentor engineers, perform architecture reviews, and collaborate with government authorities to ensure formal approvals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 19+ years of relevant experience in design, implementation, and operation of enterprise cloud infrastructure.
• Experience leading production AWS and Azure multi-cloud architectures including networking, IAM, security boundaries and platform services.
• Proficiency with AWS GovCloud, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation), cloud governance and DevSecOps integration.
• Ability to develop architecture artifacts, lead technical reviews, and work within Government approval and change-control processes.
• Active Secret Security Clearance prior to performance or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain integrated multi-cloud reference architectures, design patterns and roadmaps across infrastructure, networking, identity, shared services and cloud platform operations.
• Evaluate secure, scalable solutions for AWS GovCloud IL4/IL5 and Azure environments; assess new CSP and core service integration.
• Lead architecture reviews, dependency analysis, engineering trade studies and design recommendations for government approval.
• Define repeatable infrastructure-as-code patterns, multi-account governance, automated configuration, patching, DR and resilient edge architectures with DevSecOps and SRE teams.
• Incorporate Zero Trust, least privilege and FedRAMP/DISA compliance into platform designs.
• Support tenant onboarding, performance and availability engineering, architecture troubleshooting, optimization and FinOps.
• Mentor engineers, communicate risks and recommendations, and support technical documentation and knowledge transfer.

Skills

AWS multi-cloud architecture

Terraform/CloudFormation

DevSecOps

Zero Trust security

Leadership

Cloud governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related

Master's degree

Doctorate

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Leidos seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to serve as the senior technical architecture lead for the DoD A1 Multi-Cloud Ecosystem, covering AWS GovCloud IL4/IL5 and Azure environments. You will own integrated cloud architectures, drive roadmaps, and guide CSP integration while ensuring security and compliance standards.

You will mentor engineers, perform architecture reviews, and collaborate with government authorities to ensure formal approvals.