Hybrid Cloud Platform Architecture and Engineering Lead

at Leidos

• Job title: Cloud Platform Architecture and Engineering Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $107,900 - $195,050 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, Splunk, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Huntsville, United States

About the role

• Google Cloud Platform GCP Architecture and Engineering Lead coordinating multi-cloud solutions for the Department of the Air Force. Designing scalable and secure cloud architectures with strong focus on Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions across Google Cloud infrastructure and others
• Develop cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with organization objectives and technical requirements
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals
• Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks
• Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments
• Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies
• Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements
• Implement / integrate with identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks
• Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption
• Manage and optimize Google cloud environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems
• Implement and maintain tools and services such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices
• Support the design and development of Shared Services
• Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes
• Conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management
• Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years or more of experience; Master’s and 6+ years or more of experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
• Must have an active DoD Secret clearance
• US citizenship required
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
• Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position
• Experience administering Windows and Linux Servers, and related services
• Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Experience with Ansible, Google console, Elastic, Jira, Confluence, Git, and multiple GCP cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings
• Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premises or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk.

Benefits

• paid time off (PTO)
• flexible schedules
• discounted stock purchase plans
• career growth
• education and training support
• parental paid leave