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Principal Cloud & Platform Architect This position is located in Gaithersburg, MD; Egg Harbor Township, NJ; or Eagan, MN. This is an opportunity to contribute to projects that impact millions of air travelers. This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days onsite and 2 days remote work. Candidates should reside a commutable distance to one of the above locations. Leidos is seeking a Principal Cloud & Platform Architect to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the development of the Leidos Common Automation Platform (L-CAP). L-CAP is a mission-critical, future-ready automation platform built on a hybrid cloud data mesh architecture, enabling next-generation air traffic management capabilities. You will serve as the enterprise platform architect responsible for designing the hybrid cloud infrastructure and platform services that underpin the L-CAP automation platform. Core Technical Qualifications: Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of cloud and platform engineering experience Expert-level cloud architecture experience with AWS or Azure GovCloud Production Kubernetes experience at scale (100+ nodes) Deep Terraform/ IaC expertise for enterprise infrastructure management Platform engineering leadership for large development organizations FedRAMP platform compliance and boundary design experience Container orchestration and microservices platform design Distributed systems architecture and reliability engineering Microservices platform design supporting hundreds of services Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; US citizenship required; subject to government background investigation Experience supporting deterministic distributed services with strict latency and availability requirements Knowledge of platform engineering for safety-critical applications versus general enterprise workloads Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust U.S. citizenship required Successful completion of background investigations as required by the government customer Preferred / Desired Qualifications : AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification GovCloud deployment and operations experience Air-gapped and disconnected environment architecture Platform-as-a-Service design for internal developer teams SRE and reliability engineering practices Helm, ArgoCD, and GitOps deployment patterns Service mesh implementation (Istio, Linkerd ) Experience with hybrid cloud deployment of real-time operational systems in aviation or similar safety-critical domains ClearanceJobs