Senior Infrastructure Automation Architect

Leidos•Chantilly, VA

1d•$131,300 - $237,350•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos Intelligence Group uses a wide range of capabilities in Digital Modernization, Mission Software Systems, and enabling technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support our customers’ mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team’s focus is ensuring our intelligence customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets. We are seeking a senior-level automation engineer to design and build fully automated Windows-based enterprise environments using Infrastructure as Code principles. This role operates within a highly controlled, air-gapped enterprise environment and requires proven experience engineering and automating systems in isolated networks with no direct internet connectivity. The position is responsible for eliminating manual server builds and delivering repeatable, configuration-driven domain deployments across multiple environments. You will collaborate closely with senior-level Windows and Nutanix systems engineers within an established enterprise platform to modernize and standardize infrastructure delivery inside a secure, disconnected architecture. This is not a traditional system administration position. We are seeking a builder—someone who replaces manual processes with code, designs repeatable infrastructure patterns, and thinks in terms of declarative configuration rather than server-by-server management, specifically within constrained and isolated environments.

Requirements

Must have a Top Secret/SCI w/Poly to be considered
Must have a Bachelor’s degree and at least 12 years of experience OR a Master’s degree and at least 10 years of prior relevant experience preferred OR 16 years of relevant career experience in lieu of degree.
Demonstrated experience designing and operating automation within air-gapped or fully disconnected environments
Expert-level PowerShell development (modular, reusable, testable code)
Deep experience with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience in Windows environments
Advanced Active Directory architecture and automation experience
Experience automating enterprise Windows Server deployments
Experience with virtualization platform APIs (e.g., Nutanix, VMware,)
Experience implementing configuration drift detection and remediation
Strong understanding of secure automation, artifact management, and least-privilege design

Nice To Haves

Experience building internal artifact repositories for disconnected environments
Automation of multi-tenant or networks
Enterprise-scale configuration management strategy development
Building golden images
Experience designing automation supply chains for restricted networks

Responsibilities

Architect and implement fully automated Windows domain deployments in an air-gapped infrastructure
Build reusable PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) frameworks for disconnected networks
Design configuration-driven provisioning of Active Directory Domain Controllers, PKI/ADCS, Exchange, file, print, and application servers
Engineer automation solutions that do not rely on public repositories or internet-based package management
Partner with senior Windows and virtualization engineers to integrate automation into existing enterprise platforms
Implement Git-based configuration management within isolated repositories
Design automation for multi-domain, multi-tenant, and segmented environments
Eliminate configuration drift using declarative tooling
Develop standardized infrastructure blueprints deployable on demand
Integrate secure credential vaulting into automation workflows