Leidos is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to design and establish secure, scalable cloud platforms for mission-critical applications operating in accredited U.S. Government environments. This is a hands-on role working across software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity/RMF, data, and government platform teams to move solutions from development into secure, supportable production environments.
The ideal candidate combines deep cloud engineering expertise with experience navigating government authorization constraints. The role will establish reusable cloud architecture patterns across products and teams, including landing zones, cloud services, identity, connectivity, deployment, and environment progression—reducing duplicated effort and accelerating delivery into accredited environments.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure government cloud architectures, including landing zones, networking, identity, storage, databases, application hosting, monitoring, and other required cloud services.
- Translate application, data, integration, performance, security, and operational requirements into scalable, supportable solutions, making tradeoffs among security, reliability, performance, cost, and delivery time explicit.
- Personally build, review, test, and troubleshoot critical cloud components, including infrastructure-as-code, cloud configurations, deployment automation, identity and access controls, networking, observability, and system integrations.
- Lead resolution of complex technical problems across application and cloud environments, using logs, metrics, traces, targeted testing, and systematic root-cause analysis to validate solutions and reduce recurrence.
- Design for authorization from the start, maximizing reuse of authorized services, inherited controls, and existing government platform capabilities while partnering with cybersecurity/RMF teams on boundaries, data flows, interfaces, ports/protocols, and interconnections.
- Establish secure deployment and integration patterns with engineering and DevSecOps teams, including CI/CD, artifact promotion, configuration management, automated validation, environment progression, APIs, data movement, and multi-enclave connectivity.
- Create reusable engineering assets, including tested infrastructure-as-code modules, reference implementations, architecture patterns, deployment templates, technical standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guidance that can be adopted across products and teams.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through delivery and operations, mentoring engineers through implementation and troubleshooting while ensuring production readiness, observability, resiliency, recovery, rollback, supportability, and capacity/cost planning.
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Extensive hands-on Microsoft Azure architecture and engineering experience, including networking, identity and access management, PaaS services, application hosting, data services, security, monitoring, and resiliency.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering production systems in U.S. Government, DoD, or similarly regulated cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of government cloud security and authorization requirements, including zero trust, least privilege, security boundaries, inherited controls, and DoD RMF/ATO considerations.
- Experience designing and implementing cloud landing zones, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, environment progression, and secure software deployment patterns.
- Experience architecting complex integrations across cloud, enterprise, and restricted environments, including APIs, identity, data movement, network boundaries, and multi-enclave solutions.
- Demonstrated experience developing reusable cloud architecture patterns and technical standards that support multiple applications, products, or engineering teams.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the U.S. Government security clearance and privileged environment access required for assigned work.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing and operating solutions in classified government cloud environments, including SIPR or equivalent.
- Deep experience with Azure PaaS and data services, particularly Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, API Management, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Experience architecting enterprise data, knowledge graph, analytics, or AI-enabled platforms in secure cloud environments.
- Experience establishing cloud governance and FinOps practices across multiple subscriptions, products, or programs.
Advanced Microsoft Azure architecture or security certifications.
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Original Posting:September 18, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline
- 12+ years of relevant experience, or additional experience in lieu of a degree
- Extensive hands-on Microsoft Azure architecture and engineering experience
- Experience with Azure networking, identity and access management, PaaS services, application hosting, data services, security, monitoring, and resiliency
- Experience architecting and delivering production systems in U.S. Government, DoD, or similarly regulated cloud environments
- Knowledge of government cloud security and authorization requirements, including zero trust, least privilege, security boundaries, inherited controls, and DoD RMF/ATO considerations
- Experience designing and implementing cloud landing zones, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, environment progression, and secure software deployment patterns
- Experience architecting integrations across cloud, enterprise, and restricted environments, including APIs, identity, data movement, network boundaries, and multi-enclave solutions
- Experience developing reusable cloud architecture patterns and technical standards for multiple applications, products, or engineering teams
- Ability to obtain and maintain the U.S. Government security clearance and privileged environment access required for assigned work
- Experience designing and operating solutions in classified government cloud environments, including SIPR or equivalent
- Deep experience with Azure PaaS and data services, including Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, API Management, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID
- Experience architecting enterprise data, knowledge graph, analytics, or AI-enabled platforms in secure cloud environments
- Experience establishing cloud governance and FinOps practices across multiple subscriptions, products, or programs
- Advanced Microsoft Azure architecture or security certifications
Leidos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple plan options, low office-visit copays in some plans, and access to mental health and wellness support tools. The availability of HSA/FSA options and employer contributions is positioned as a meaningful part of the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as a strong component of total rewards, highlighted by a 401(k) match and immediate vesting in the standard package. The Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also presented as an additional long-term wealth-building feature.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle supports extend beyond core insurance, including wellness programs, fitness-related stipends, and assistance resources. Work flexibility and related perks are also included as part of the broader rewards experience.
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What We Do
We Are Leidos For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world. OUR MISSION Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead.
