Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Description

Leidos is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 150+ 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.

Primary Responsibilities

List daily duties and/or specific job responsibilities.

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,

• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems

• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services

• Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience

• Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions

• Have experience with DevOps pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck

• Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, Groovy, YAML, JSON, Java, and Python

• Experience with AWS CLI

• Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward

• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases

• Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage GitFlow constructs

• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.

• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

• System Administration/Privileged Access duties

All team members will be required to participate in a 24/7 on call rotation for 1 week every 8 weeks.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Master’s degree and 15+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree
• Basic Qualifications
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Expert in using Java, JavaScript
• 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 with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with development leveraging cloud data services
• 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

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, Spark, Tableau, Elastic Search, Nagios, reactsJS, UIBootstrap, Katalon and Human Centered Design.
• Experience in AWS Data management services
• Experience with the Sponsor’s entitlement management programs
• AWS certification

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.