Senior Cloud Architect

Leidos is seeking a searching for a Senior Cloud Architect to provide the United States Space Force (USSF) Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) for the Digital Bloodhound program. The position will provide direct cloud architect and engineering support to the USSF/SSC’s SZYO/Defense Cyber Operations-Space (DCO-S) organization to drive data-informed decisions at speed, maximizing the Service’s flexibility and efficiency in delivering cybersecurity capabilities to protect the USSF’s Operational Enterprise. The successful candidate will possess a strategic mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Study, analyze, recommend, and ultimately design and build new hybrid cloud-based environment(s) for DCO-S cloud initiatives, ensuring that critical applications are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Integrate capabilities and models into the new cloud-based environment.
• Define requirements for the DCO-S throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to include integrating, upgrading, and sustaining the hybrid cloud-based environment.
• Back decisions with research and the “why/so what”, and articulate options, pros and cons for each recommendation.
• Develop solutions architectures and evaluate architectural alternatives for hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
• Guide the migration of legacy systems to a modern cloud platform solution and assist with the adoption into the DCO-S solution.
• Design enterprise and systems security throughout the cloud development life cycle; translate technology and environmental conditions into security designs and processes.
• Design and develop security requirements that mitigates risk while maintaining a cyber security operational capability across the USSF enterprise.
• Maintain overall knowledge of, stay up to date with, and research industry best practices, trends, and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact on the DCO-S software development strategies and possible implementation.
• Verify architecture against DCO-S program requirements and goals. This includes participating in technical discussions, trade studies and working groups.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, UX/UI designers, and quality assurance, to define and deliver software solutions that meet DCO-S requirements and customer needs.
• Interface with USSF Test Enterprise leadership, and training and program managers to explain security goals and mitigations relative to their priorities of cost, schedule and performance.
• Provide regular updates, reports, and presentations on DCO-S software development progress, achievements, and challenges to stakeholders and senior management.
• Establish and enforce quality assurance protocols to guarantee the provision of dependable, secure, and regulation-compliant software solutions.
• Champion process automation to reduce manual steps and improve reusability of solutions.
• Utilize cloud services and technologies to architect and develop scalable and reliable software solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 14 years of relevant technical architect and team leadership experience in designing large and complex IT operations in large organizations or a research environment for government and/or private industry.
• Demonstratable knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
• Experience developing briefings and presenting analysis results to high-level stakeholders to help them in their decision-making processes.
• Capability to assume a leadership role during system requirements reviews, design reviews and other types of technical meetings.
• Demonstratable knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes.
• Experience with Big Data (e.g., Hadoop, NiFi, Spark, PySpark, Dask, etc.).
• Experience in application migration.
• Agile development experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related STEM or engineering discipline required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on-site in a government client environment.
• Familiarity with security procedures while working in a SCIF/SAPF environment.
• Cloud Security Implementation experience.
• Experience with DoD Acquisition Lifecycle and/or Rapid Acquisition / Rapid Delivery.
• Familiarity with security procedures while working in a SCIF/SAPF environment.
• Azure Solutions, Google Professional Cloud, AWS Certified Solutions, and/or Red Hat Certified Architect.

Original Posting Date:2024-04-08

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.

Pay Range:Pay Range $101,400.00 - $183,300.00

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.