Senior Cloud & Platform Architect — AI-First Hybrid Cloud

Leidos Inc; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Principal Cloud & Platform Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, leading the hybrid cloud infrastructure and the L-CAP platform services. The role emphasizes AI-first engineering, scalable, FedRAMP-compliant architectures for government programs, and deterministic performance for safety-critical systems.

The position supports hybrid cloud deployment across multiple locations with a Public Trust clearance and requires commuting distance to Gaithersburg, MD; Egg

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of cloud and platform experience.
• Expert-level AWS or Azure GovCloud architecture experience.
• Production Kubernetes experience at scale (100+ nodes).
• Deep Terraform/IaC expertise for enterprise infrastructure management.
• Platform engineering leadership for large development organizations.
• FedRAMP platform compliance and boundary design experience.
• Container orchestration and microservices platform design.
• Distributed systems architecture and reliability engineering.
• Microservices platform design supporting hundreds of services.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; US citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Design the hybrid cloud architecture spanning on-premises and cloud environments.
• Define Kubernetes orchestration strategy for containerized workloads at scale.
• Establish Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) governance using Terraform.
• Architect FedRAMP-compliant platform designs across multiple environments.
• Design and govern CI/CD platform services for engineering teams.
• Lead capacity planning and infrastructure cost modeling.
• Define platform reliability standards including SLOs and SLIs.
• Design multi-environment deployment strategy (dev, test, staging, production).
• Oversee container orchestration patterns and service mesh architecture.
• Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• Design platform architecture to host safety-critical ATC applications with deterministic performance characteristics rather than general enterprise IT workloads.
• Ensure operational resilience and failover capabilities for distributed real-time ATC services across hybrid cloud deployments.
• Define platform requirements for deterministic distributed services including latency guarantees and predictable resource allocation.
• Champion an AI-first engineering culture by identifying and applying AI-assisted development capabilities, automation, and emerging software engineering practices that improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, and delivery.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes at scale

Terraform IaC

Platform engineering leadership

FedRAMP compliance

Container orchestration

Distributed systems design

Public Trust clearance

Latency & Performance

AI-first engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

ArgoCD

GitOps

Helm

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Principal Cloud & Platform Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, leading the hybrid cloud infrastructure and the L-CAP platform services. The role emphasizes AI-first engineering, scalable, FedRAMP-compliant architectures for government programs, and deterministic performance for safety-critical systems.

The position supports hybrid cloud deployment across multiple locations with a Public Trust clearance and requires commuting distance to Gaithersburg, MD; Egg