Senior Cloud Architect – Multi-Cloud GovCloud & Azure

Leidos; Randolph Air Force Base (TX); On-site; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to lead the senior technical architecture for the A1 Multi-Cloud Ecosystem, guiding integration of AWS GovCloud and Azure environments. You will own architecture roadmaps, ensure FedRAMP/DISA compliance, and mentor a team of engineers across infrastructure, security, and platform services.

This contractor-led role requires active Secret clearance and experience with DoD cloud platforms, IaC patterns, and incident-ready disaster recovery, with onsite work at

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Master’s degree with 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Doctorate with 13+ years of relevant experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise cloud infrastructure.
• Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree in accordance with Leidos policy.
• Demonstrated architecture leadership in production AWS and Azure multi-cloud environments, including networking, IAM, security boundaries, infrastructure automation and platform services.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation), cloud governance, DevSecOps integration, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Ability to develop architecture artifacts, lead technical reviews, and work within Government approval and change-control processes.
• Must have an active Secret Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain integrated multi-cloud reference architectures, design patterns, architecture documentation and technical roadmaps across infrastructure, networking, identity, shared services and cloud platform operations.
• Evaluate and recommend secure, resilient, scalable solutions for AWS GovCloud IL4/IL5 and Azure environments; provide technical assessments for new CSP and core service integration.
• Lead architecture reviews, dependency analysis, engineering trade studies, and design recommendations to the A1 DTA Cloud Center of Excellence and designated Government technical authority.
• Obtain formal Government review and written approval before major architectural or strategic changes.
• Define repeatable infrastructure-as-code patterns, multi-account governance, automated configuration, patching, disaster recovery and resilient edge service architectures in collaboration with DevSecOps and site reliability engineering teams.
• Partner with cybersecurity leadership to incorporate Zero Trust principles, least privilege, boundary protection, continuous monitoring and FedRAMP/DISA compliance into platform designs.
• Support tenant onboarding, platform performance and availability engineering, architecture troubleshooting, optimization, FinOps and technical integration with enterprise cloud constructs such as Cloud One/JWCC.
• Mentor engineers, communicate technical risks and recommendations, and support technical documentation, reviews, transition and knowledge transfer.

Skills

AWS GovCloud

Azure multi-cloud

Infrastructure as Code

DevSecOps integration

Architecture leadership

Networking

IAM

Security boundaries

Disaster recovery

FinOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Master’s degree in related field

Doctorate in related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitLab CI/CD

ServiceNow

Observability tools

Job description

Leidos seeks a Lead Cloud Architect to lead the senior technical architecture for the A1 Multi-Cloud Ecosystem, guiding integration of AWS GovCloud and Azure environments. You will own architecture roadmaps, ensure FedRAMP/DISA compliance, and mentor a team of engineers across infrastructure, security, and platform services.

This contractor-led role requires active Secret clearance and experience with DoD cloud platforms, IaC patterns, and incident-ready disaster recovery, with onsite work at