Cloud Compute/Storage Architect

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ mission success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable practices. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. Our workforce enjoys career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development, while experiencing rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Your most important work is ahead. If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, then keep reading because Leidos is seeking a qualified Cloud & Compute/Storage Architect to support a proposed large-scale, transformational IT infrastructure program. A successful candidate thrives on designing resilient, cost-effective, multi-cloud environments alongside modernized on-premise compute and storage. An individual understands how to balance a hybrid cloud/on-prem footprint and bring the technical credibility to serve as the trusted architecture authority for a high-visibility federal infrastructure transformation program. *This position is onsite /hybrid remote. Candidates will need to be located within the DMV, preferably near Bethesda, MD, and Gaithersburg MD .

Serve as the senior technical architect for end-to-end Compute, Storage, and Backup Services, spanning dedicated/shared physical compute, virtual compute, hybrid compute, and compute containers across FDA's data centers and cloud environments. Own the distributed server strategy (e.g., VMware or high-availability system clusters), 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 (SAN/NAS), including capacity planning, tuning, and hyperconverged compute/network/storage capabilities. Own backup and recovery architecture across FDA's hybrid environment, ensuring solutions meet FDA retention, archive, and disaster-recovery requirements, and align with NIST 800-88/FIPS 200 media sanitization guidance. Serve as the lead architect for FDA's Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) environment (Docker Enterprise Edition, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, NeuVector, Portworx), ensuring high availability, secure container images, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Architect and own FDA's Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) approach across AWS, Azure, and GCP landing zones, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and integrity between public/private cloud and on-premise CaaS environments. Provide architecture guidance and support to development and product teams deploying applications to AWS, Azure, and GCP, leveraging DevSecOps best practices including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). Own the technical design of FDA's cloud governance model, entitlements/administrative role access to CSP accounts, and the Dedicated Master Payer Account structure across each CSP. Support the Cloud Business Service Management function by architecting the technical underpinnings of the Cloud Service Catalog, metering/chargeback, cost forecasting, and tagging/allocation activities across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Drive continuous service improvement, including modernizing technical capabilities, reducing vendor management costs, and identifying opportunities for simplification, consolidation, automation, and deduplication across compute, storage, and cloud services. Ensure compute, storage, and cloud services adhere to Federal mandates, security standards (e.g., NIST SP 800-117), and FDA internal policies, and support FDA Server Security Assessments and Audits.• Participate in FDA Change Control Board (CCB) meetings related to server, storage, and cloud infrastructure changes; coordinate with application server groups and