DevOps Engineer SME

Location: Chantilly, VA

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Leidos is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months.

 

Required

 • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

 

• Master's degree and 15+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.

 

• Expert in Linux operating system usage

 

• Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Rundeck

 

• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices

 

• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit

 

• Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo

 

• Experience scripting and using AWS services including Cloudformation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc

 

• Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)

 

• Experience with Nexus administration

 

• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

 

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

 

• Well versed with using version control systems

 

• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems

 

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods

 

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a production environment

 

• Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and security best practices

 

Desired Skills

• Experience with Elastic tools

 

• Experience working in the Sponsor’s cloud environments

 

• Experience with Nexus administration and maintenance

 

• Experience with Sponsor’s release management tools and processes

 

• AWS certification

 

• Container-related certification

 

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification, demonstrating expertise in designing, building and running applications on

Kubernetes

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Original Posting:

October 21, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.