DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

Leidos•Reston, VA

About The Position

This is not a maintenance role. This is a reinvention role. Come put your site reliability skills into action! The Leidos Software Accelerator has openings for talented Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to design and build Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that accelerate the secure delivery of software to production. You will automate the buildout of infrastructure in the cloud, on-prem, and at the edge. You will deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters and microservice deployments. You will take an active part in building and supporting our cutting-edge mission platform. In this role, you will join dynamic, agile software teams that are singularly focused on providing world-class solutions for our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive atmosphere. You will be intellectually challenged and provided with a tremendous opportunity for growth in a customer-facing, fast-paced, and fun environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 4-8 years of experience in a relevant field. Additional Experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
Experience with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices.
Fundamental background with software design patterns and programming languages.
Excellent problem solving and analysis skills.
Self-starter that is able to work independently while possessing the communication skills to work effectively with software development teams and customers.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to own entire projects or processes within a technical area.
Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff.
Ability to obtain U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.
Ability to support program execution in classified environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS)
Experience provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
Experience with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
Experience with automation tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies
Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux CD, Fleet or similar
Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar

Responsibilities

Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical infrastructure
Manage private and public cloud infrastructures via code, designing reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly-available, secure architectures for cloud-based applications.
Enable the continuous integration and continuous delivery of our diverse suite of software products by applying best practices for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and automated software deployments.
Continually evaluate and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams.
Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for the team.
Makes process and program recommendations to the project or program.
Own entire projects or processes within a technical area.
Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff.