Solution Architect​/Engineer in District Heights

Job Description

Description

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At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success.

We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

Our Digital Modernization Sector brings together our digital transformation and IT programs, allowing us to better serve our customers through scale and repeatability.

• Serve as the Enterprise Architecture team lead; assigning and managing team tasks, conducting daily stand ups and status updates, preparing weekly consolidated reports, and delivering updates to the federal lead.
• Define and develop target infrastructure architectures across hybrid and multi cloud environments, networks, platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Design and implement end to end technical solutions, ensuring scalability, resilience, performance, and cost optimization.
• Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives, including evaluation of legacy systems, migration strategies, and adoption of new technologies.
• Engineer and deploy solutions across cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), virtualization environments, on premises datacenters, and containerized workloads.
• Architect and build network solutions including LAN/WAN, VPN, SD WAN, firewalls, load balancers, and cloud networking (VPC/VNet, subnets, gateways, routing, peering).
• Create detailed architectural diagrams, including data flow diagrams, integration maps, logical/physical infrastructure designs, and solution blueprints.
• Analyze and document system and application data flows to ensure secure, efficient, and reliable communication between components.
• Develop automation and code-based solutions using Python, Power Shell, Bash, or similar, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Cloud Formation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve escalated, high level technical issues across networking, cloud, systems, and application layers.
• Evaluate and recommend technology platforms, integration patterns, and architectural standards based on business and technical imperatives.
• Ensure all solutions adhere to security, governance, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
• Support capacity planning, resiliency strategies, disaster recovery architecture, and business continuity design.
• Collaborate closely with project management team, engineering, security, and application teams throughout design, build, deployment, and optimization phases.
• Produce comprehensive technical documentation including architecture designs, data flow diagrams, engineering procedures, operational runbooks, and implementation guides.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or in 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 enterprise architecture, infrastructure engineering, and cloud solutions.
• 12+ years in a leadership or lead architect role, including team task management, conducting stand-ups, and delivering executive-level status reports.
• Proven hands‑on experience designing and implementing solutions across hybrid/multi‑cloud environments (AWS and Azure strongly), on‑premises data centers, virtualization platforms, and containerized workloads (e.g., Kubernetes/Docker).
• Strong background in enterprise networking including LAN/WAN, VPN, SD-WAN, firewalls, load balancers, VPC/VNet, routing, peering, and related technologies.
• Demonstrated success leading infrastructure modernization, legacy system migrations, and large‑scale technical implementations.
• Experience with automation and scripting using Python, Power Shell, Bash, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation).
• Track record of creating high‑quality technical documentation, including architecture…