DevOps Engineer

Leidos has an immediate opening for a Mid-Level DevOps Engineer on the Systems Engineering & Integration Contract (SEIC), supporting Air Force & Navy Mission Planning.  You will be joining a dynamic DevSecOps team that’s designing next-generation solutions for Mission Planning customers using a variety of deployment environments.  This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies to address a diverse and expansive set of Mission Planning requirements.

Primary Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be energetic, organized, eager to learn and comfortable working & speaking in a team environment, placing a high value on collaboration and team success. Core responsibilities will include:

• Automating solutions integration & prototyping in a DevSecOps environment
• Frequent, clear communications & support via messaging applications
• Creating & maintaining documentation, wikis & training materials for other DevSecOps engineers and developers to leverage in SW development
• Integrating microservices-based architectures into various environments (K8s, K3s, RKE2s)
• Mentoring less-experienced software developers on how to develop and integrate new capability within an AWS or Azure cloud-based DoD Mission Planning pipeline.
• Providing Help-desk escalation software developer support

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship (no dual or Green Card/Permanent Resident Card).
• Must have the ability to obtain a DoD Secret-level Security Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related field
• 4+ years of software development or operations experience working on microservices-based architectures and Application Programming Interface (API) design
• 1+ years of working in a DevSecOps environment; familiar with DevSecOps best practices
• Ability to work in both Linux & Windows Operating Systems
• Bash/Shell Scripting Experience
• Strong communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills to work effectively with multiple contractors, government agencies and mission planning stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Jenkins or comparable build automation tooling
• Experience with one or more Kubernetes cluster types (e.g., AKS (most preferred), EKS, GKE, Openshift, K3s, RKE2s, Minikube)
• Experience with Kubernetes applications (e.g., Kubectl, Helm, Rancher)
• Experience with system monitoring stacks, such as:
  • Prometheus / Grafana / Loki
  • Elastic / Kibana
  • Splunk
• Knowledge of software version control and repo tools (GIT and Bitbucket preferred)
• Experience with frontend web-application technologies (i.e., Node, NPM, React, Redux)
• Experience with Docker containers
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Experience working in an Agile Development environment (SAFe Agile is a plus)
• Experience with Azure DevOps/Atlassian Tool Suite
• Experience with Virtual Machine Technology (Hyper-V, VMware Workstation)
• Experience with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

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.