DevOps Engineer

Leidos•Bethesda, MD

15d•$107,900 - $195,050•Hybrid

About The Position

Leidos is looking for our next TS/SCI‑cleared DevOps Software Engineer to join a high‑energy team building and deploying a cutting‑edge technology stack in support of the DIA‑NMEC (National Media Exploitation Center) DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). Under this 10-year contract containing multiple Task Orders, we support the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization program as well as DIA-OSIC’s mission to centralize and standardize Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the DoD and IC enterprise. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6+ years with a Master’s.
Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
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.
Strong Linux proficiency, specifically knowledgeable about sysctls for K8s environments and experience with FApolicyd and SELinux.
Hands‑on experience with containers and Kubernetes (e.g., Ingress/Gateway API, Helm chart design/build, pod disruption budgets, affinity/anti-affinity rules, familiarity with external-secrets, ArgoCD, cert-manager, eck (elastic search)).
Experience with GitLab pipeline development (e.g., integration of GitLab CI/CD components, code quality reports, coverage/test reports).
Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
Demonstrated success working in cross‑functional engineering environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience with systems at scale.
Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques.
Experience with development, e.g., Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java.
Experience supporting an enterprise or production 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

Design, deploy, and maintain a full‑stack, containerized microservices architecture.
Support systems administration, installation, and configuration.
Promote the broader adoption of DevOps best practices across cross‑functional engineering teams.
Collaborate closely with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams.
Deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline built on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation to accelerate development and improve reliability.
Design and support scalable, redundant infrastructure across physical and virtual environments.
Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments for new features and evolving requirements.
Partner with Systems Engineers to architect solutions for new capabilities.
Contribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models.
Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities.