Cloud Architect Engineer

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Leidos is seeking a highly skilled Cloud Architect / Engineer to design implement optimize and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure across multiple this role the candidate will play a critical part in ensuring high availability security performance scalability and cost-efficiency of ATRs cloud environments. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to support business growth drive cloud adoption and proactively address infrastructure challenges in a fast-paced hybrid/multi-cloud environment.

Please Note: This work is located onsite in the DC area.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the enterprise technology vision by defining long-term strategic blueprints and engineering standards supporting the implementation of cloud technologies like: Generative AI applications and production-ready RAG pipelines Scalable vector database indexing clustering and retrieval pipelines to optimize vector search Scalable GPU/TPU compute clusters managed container services and automated auto-scaling for LLM workloads Private cloud networks secure API gateways and dedicated endpoints to isolate AI traffic from the public internet Applications leveraging modern microservices and APIs.

• Design and implement scalable secure and resilient hybrid cloud architectures; using cloud-agnostic tools and processes.

• Architect and manage core cloud networking components (VPCs VNets subnets transit gateways/peering firewalls private links Direct Connect/ExpressRoute etc.).

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform CloudFormation Bicep ARM and Ansible to automate provisioning and configuration management.

• Implement comprehensive cloud security controls compliance frameworks (SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA PCI-DSS CMMC etc.) encryption security groups WAF and monitoring for threats and misconfigurations.

• Develop and implement processes to optimize cost and utilization through resource tagging rightsizing reserved instances/savings plans and continuous cost analysis.

• Set up and maintain monitoring logging and observability solutions using tools like CloudWatch Azure Monitor Google Operations Datadog Prometheus/Grafana or ELK stack.

• Support disaster recovery high availability and business continuity strategies including backup/restore failover architectures and regular DR testing.

• Collaborate with Network Security Application Development and Operations teams on cloud-related projects incident response and architecture reviews.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering OR a related field and 12 years of relevant experience OR Masters degree with 10 years of relevant experience . Additional years of experience will be considered/accepted in lieu of a degree.

• 12 years of progressive experience in cloud architecture engineering and operations with at least 4 years in a senior or lead Cloud Architect role.

• Strong experience designing and implementing hybrid/multi-cloud environments (AWS Azure Google Cloud) at enterprise scale.

• Proven expertise with Generative AI infrastructure including: Production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines Scalable vector databases (e.g. Pinecone Weaviate Milvus FAISS or managed services) with indexing clustering and optimized retrieval GPU/TPU compute clusters managed container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE) and auto-scaling for large language model (LLM) workloads.

• Deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools: Terraform (preferred) AWS CloudFormation Azure Bicep/ARM and Ansible.

• Strong background in cloud networking: (VPCs VNets subnets transit gateways peering private links Direct Connect/ExpressRoute Firewalls security groups WAF and private API gateways).

• Demonstrated experience implementing enterprise security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA PCI-DSS CMMC FedRAMP etc.) including encryption threat monitoring and zero-trust architectures.

• Experience with observability and monitoring stacks (CloudWatch Azure Monitor Google Operations Datadog Prometheus/Grafana ELK/EFK stack).

• Proven track record in cost optimization (tagging rightsizing Reserved Instances Savings Plans) and disaster recovery/business continuity planning.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; ability to work with cross-functional teams (Network Security Dev Ops) in a fast-paced environment.

• U.S. Citizenship required.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading cloud adoption and defining long-term strategic technology roadmaps.

• Hands-on work with microservices architectures modern APIs and secure private cloud networking for AI workloads.

• Familiarity with containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and serverless technologies.

Desired Certifications (one or more preferred; multiple strongly encouraged):

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).

• Azure Security Engineer Associate.

Please Note: The program budget salary for this role could fall anywhere between mid $150000 to low/mid $170000 with a slight wiggle room (no guarantees) based on relevant experience and assessment. 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.

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The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.