Senior Cloud Platform Architect - Hybrid, AI-Driven, FedRAMP

Leidos LLC; Gaithersburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave and Retirement

Job summary

Leidos seeks a Principal Cloud & Platform Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, leading hybrid cloud design for the L-CAP automation platform. You will shape Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD strategies in a FedRAMP context to support mission-critical ATC applications.

Requires 12+ years in cloud/platform engineering, FedRAMP experience, and US citizenship with eligibility for Public Trust. Hybrid work with on-site and remote days to align with multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of cloud and platform engineering experience.
• Expert-level cloud architecture experience with AWS or Azure GovCloud.
• 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 experience and boundary design.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; US citizenship required.
• Experience with safety-critical platforms and deterministic distributed services.

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 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
• Ensure operational resilience and failover capabilities for distributed real-time ATC services
• Champion an AI-first engineering culture in development processes

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform/IaC

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure GovCloud

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio/Linkerd

ArgoCD

Job description

Leidos seeks a Principal Cloud & Platform Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, leading hybrid cloud design for the L-CAP automation platform. You will shape Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD strategies in a FedRAMP context to support mission-critical ATC applications.

Requires 12+ years in cloud/platform engineering, FedRAMP experience, and US citizenship with eligibility for Public Trust. Hybrid work with on-site and remote days to align with multiple locations.