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At Leidos, innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Powered by a team as diverse as it is talented, we're driven by a shared passion for delivering bold solutions that fuel our customers' success. We believe in empowering our people, giving back to our communities, and leading with sustainability. Every action we take is grounded in integrity and a steadfast commitment to doing what’s right—for our customers, our teams, and the world around us. Our Mission, Vision, and Values aren't just words—they're the compass guiding our journey toward a brighter future.

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The National Security Sector technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities for defense and intel customers in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics.

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The National Security Sector at Leidos is seeking a highly motivated Cloud Solution Architect to support a critical mission system to migrate its capabilities onto the cloud. The candidate will support our Agile DevSecOps contract and be responsible for understanding customer needs to migrate the system to a cloud-based environment and efficiently and effectively executing technical programs. The ideal candidate will possess superior analytical and problem-solving skills, understanding both the AWS and Azure cloud environment, operate independently with limited supervision and feedback, be a strong team player, and can establish solid working relationships with technical staff and peers within the division, as well as our external Government customers.

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Primary Responsibilities:

• Maximize the architectural framework concept of microservices to enable autonomous application evolution within the customer’s ecosystem.
• Deliver system and infrastructure capabilities that are scalable, secure, and resilient.
• Support cloud architecture across the AWS unclassified enclave (or other cloud service provider in the future), with a CI/CD pipeline to support deployment of services.
• Utilize various CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab and GitLab Runner, and Artifactory.
• Experience deploying and orchestrating Docker containers in a cloud environment.
• Provide system platform management (Kubernetes) to include monitoring, troubleshooting of pre-production and production environments.
• Experience with various air-gapped Government unclassified and classified AWS region (or other cloud service provider in the future) managed services, such as Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), OpenSearch, DynamoDB, and Terraform.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting issues, responding to incidents, ensuring backups are operating correctly, and ensuring cost optimization.
• Monitor cloud environments to prevent unforeseen charges and ensure that AWS CloudWatch, or equivalent service, is activated, and billing alerts and alarms are enabled based on and triggered by government defined metrics.

Clearance Required:

• Current Secret.

Required Experience, Skills, and Education:

• Strong background in organizing, directing, and managing contract operation support functions, involving multiple, complex and inter-related project tasks.
• Skilled at migrating existing systems and ensure interoperability between the Classic and Cloud versions throughout the migration time frame.
• Experience in working with the following: Azure DevOps 2022; Visual Studio 2022; Git for Windows; Kubernetes; Docker; Swaggerl; Keycloak; RabbitMQ; Linkerd; NGINX; Blazor; ElasticSearch or OpenSearch;.NET; C#; Javascript; and Java (with SpringBoot framework); Terraform;
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining components in AWS working with the following: Linux
• XML/XSD and JSON.
• Bachelor’s degree (additional experience, education and training may be considered in lieu of degree).
• Twelve or more (12+) years of relevant experience.

Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education:

• AWS Certified.
• Advance degree in IT related field preferred.
• Experience with SAFe and ITIL.
• Top Secret Clearance.
• Experience in communications, cloud migration, and DevSecOps; hardware/software fabrication; Cloud, platform system integration; and/or test and evaluation.

Original Posting:

May 9, 2025

For 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.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

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.