3 days ago
Base Salary
$131k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, architecture decision records, and reusable reference patterns.
- Design hybrid and cross-cloud integration, identity, networking, shared services, and workload placement across cloud providers.
- Advise application organizations on modernization plans and coordinate implementation across cloud, application, security, testing, and operations teams.
- Build and review infrastructure-as-code modules, automation, reference implementations, secure CI/CD patterns, and production prototypes.
- Embed identity, least privilege, segmentation, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and applicable compliance controls into architectures.
- Define reliability objectives and design observability, failure isolation, backup, recovery, and safe change practices.
- Evaluate lifecycle risks, utilization, performance, total cost of ownership, technical debt, and cost optimization opportunities.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, lead troubleshooting and post-incident improvements, and establish documentation and operational runbooks.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and 10 or more years of relevant experience; additional experience may substitute for the degree.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex production cloud architectures from requirements and design through implementation and operational validation.
- Deep production architecture and implementation experience in at least two of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, with the ability to evaluate all three; OCI experience is preferred.
- Experience designing cloud networking, identity and access controls, compute, storage, data services, integration, resilience, and observability across containers, serverless, virtual machines, and managed services.
- Hands-on experience developing and reviewing production infrastructure as code using Terraform or an equivalent, engineering Kubernetes and managed container platforms, and implementing secure CI/CD.
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language and shell scripting.
- Experience designing or modernizing FISMA-regulated systems and working with NIST SP 800-53, shared responsibility, and cloud authorization boundaries.
- Experience validating recovery and performance, diagnosing complex production failures, and making quantified cost, reliability, security, and maintainability trade-offs.
- Ability to work independently, lead cross-organizational design decisions, mentor engineers, resolve disagreements, and communicate architectures, risks, recommendations, and results.
- Preferred qualifications include CMS Hybrid Cloud or Enterprise Shared Services experience, CMS ARS and application modernization experience, broader multi-cloud depth, and relevant advanced cloud architecture, DevOps, or security certification.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination and satisfy the requirement to have resided in the United States for at least three of the previous five years.
Benefits
- The listed pay range is $131,300.00 to $237,350.00 annually.
- The role supports CMS programs and requires eligibility for a Public Trust determination and compliance with the stated U.S. residency requirement.
- Candidates advanced to interviews must keep their camera on, and the interviewer may take a picture for identification if an offer is extended.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.