# Cloud Compute/Storage Architect

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a qualified Cloud & Compute/Storage Architect to support a proposed large-scale, transformational IT infrastructure program.

The successful candidate will design resilient, cost-effective, multi-cloud environments alongside modernized on-premise compute and storage. They will serve as the trusted architecture authority for a high-visibility federal infrastructure transformation program.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Serve as the senior technical architect for end-to-end Compute, Storage, and Backup Services

- Own the distributed server strategy, including policies, architecture, standards, and requirements for server operations across Windows and Linux environments

- Architect storage and data management solutions spanning Backup & Archive, Distributed Storage, File & Object Storage, and Networked Storage

- Own backup and recovery architecture across FDA's hybrid environment

- Serve as the lead architect for FDA's Container-as-a-Service environment

- Architect and own FDA's Infrastructure-as-a-Service approach across AWS, Azure, and GCP landing zones

- Provide architecture guidance and support to development and product teams deploying applications to AWS, Azure, and GCP

- Own the technical design of FDA's cloud governance model

- Support the Cloud Business Service Management function

- Drive continuous service improvement

- Ensure compute, storage, and cloud services adhere to Federal mandates and security standards

- Participate in FDA Change Control Board meetings

- Mentor and provide technical direction to Cloud Engineers, Server/Storage Administrators, and CaaS platform staff

- Support the Transition Manager and Program Manager during the three-phase transition

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of progressive experience in program/operations management and/or service delivery management

- A minimum of 3–5 years in a senior architect or technical lead role

- Demonstrated hands-on architecture experience across multi-cloud environments

- Strong working knowledge of enterprise compute environments and server virtualization platforms

- Experience architecting enterprise storage and backup solutions

- Hands-on experience with container orchestration and Container-as-a-Service platforms

- Familiarity with cloud cost management/chargeback concepts

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills

- U.S. Citizenship required

- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Additional Professional-level certifications across a second or third cloud provider

- Certified Kubernetes Administrator or equivalent container-platform certification

- TIL Foundation certification

- Prior experience directly supporting FDA or a comparable federal health/regulatory science agency

- Experience with FedRAMP-authorized cloud service offerings and Authority to Operate processes

- Familiarity with ServiceNow or comparable enterprise ITSM/service-catalog platforms

- Experience supporting large-scale, phased cloud migrations for a federal civilian agency

## Skills

### Required
- multi-cloud environments
- compute and storage
- cloud governance
- Container-as-a-Service
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service
- DevSecOps
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Docker Enterprise Edition

### Nice to have
- Additional Professional-level certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- TIL Foundation certification
- FedRAMP-authorized cloud service offerings
- ServiceNow

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