Senior Cloud Platform Architect — Hybrid AI, FedRAMP

Leidos; Egg Harbor City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos seeks a Principal Cloud & Platform Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, shaping the L-CAP hybrid cloud data mesh and ensuring deterministic performance for safety-critical ATC apps. 12+ years in cloud/platform engineering are required, with FedRAMP and government-clearance readiness.

This hybrid role spans Gaithersburg, Egg Harbor Township, and Eagan, with 3 onsite/2 remote days. You will lead architecture across on-prem and cloud, govern IaC, CI/CD, and capacity planning,

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 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; subject to government background investigation.
• Experience supporting deterministic distributed services with strict latency and availability requirements.
• Knowledge of platform engineering for safety-critical applications versus general enterprise workloads.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Successful completion of background investigations as required by the government customer.

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

Reliability engineering

Microservices design

Public Trust clearance

Latency & availability

Safety-critical platforms

AI-assisted development

US citizenship

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

Azure GovCloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Leidos seeks a Principal Cloud & Platform Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area, shaping the L-CAP hybrid cloud data mesh and ensuring deterministic performance for safety-critical ATC apps. 12+ years in cloud/platform engineering are required, with FedRAMP and government-clearance readiness.

This hybrid role spans Gaithersburg, Egg Harbor Township, and Eagan, with 3 onsite/2 remote days. You will lead architecture across on-prem and cloud, govern IaC, CI/CD, and capacity planning,