DevOps Engineer

Leidos•Bethesda, MD

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Leidos has an exciting opening for you, our next TS/SCI cleared DevOps Software Engineer working with a dynamic team to design, develop and deploy a state-of-the-art technology stack supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization program as well as our client’s mission to centralize and standardize Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE). You will have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values inclusion, innovation, collaboration, and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. As a DevOps Engineer you will contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration. You will participate in fostering a DevOps culture, building strong cross functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast paced environment. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of developers, other software integrators and system administrators on the following key tasks:

Requirements

BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master’s degree. Additional years of experience in lieu of degree are acceptable.
Must have an active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
Possess at least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification, e.g., CCNA Security, CySA+, Security+ CE, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate)
Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification per DoD 8570 policy
Experienced with container/container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes and troubleshooting experience with: Ingress/Gateway API Helm chart design/build Pod disruption budgets Affinity/anti-affinity rules
Familiarity with external-secrets, ArgoCD, cert-manager, eck (elastic search)
GitLab pipeline development experience including: Integration of GitLab CI/CD components Integration of GitLab Code Quality reports Integration of GitLab Code Coverage/Test reports
Knowledgeable in navigating Linux OS, specifically: Knowledgeable about sysctls for K8s environments FApolicyd and SELinux experience
Comfortable with Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana
Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

Nice To Haves

Experience with systems at scale
Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
Experience with development, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
Experience on a production/ enterprise system
Experience with any of the following technologies: Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS) Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana GPU-based Kubernetes SALT for deployment automation Nexus

Responsibilities

To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging
Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments
Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements
Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings