DevOps Engineer

Leidos•Washington, DC

2d•$107,900 - $195,050•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Leidos' Digital Sector as we stand up a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization, delivering real digital transformation where it matters most. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to architect, build, and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of some of our nation's most sensitive and critical missions. What to expect: Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases Full-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures A collaborative, Agile environment where your input shapes the architecture from day one Dev platform based on ServiceNow, Elastic, Kafka, AWS and RedHat

Requirements

An active TS/SCI clearance (required for consideration)
Willingness to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment
Current Security+ certification or higher/equivalent
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.
Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.
Ability to multi-task, self-assign work, and work in a geographically distributed team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
Experience developing software on a Linux platform.
Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.
Demonstrated leadership skills and attention to detail, including excellent organizational and documentation skills.
Ability to obtain an interim DoD Secret security clearance prior to start date.
Ability to obtain a security certification that meets DOD 8570 IAT level II or higher, such as Security+ CE or CISSP, within 60 days of start date.

Nice To Haves

Full software lifecycle experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
Software development experience with Python and Java and SQL, including integration experience with JSON/REST web services, as well as the parsing, generation and validation of JSON. Working knowledge of JavaScript.
Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker.
Working knowledge of Git and experience with development workflows in GitHub, Bitbucket or an equivalent tool.
Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence.
Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team.
Experience working as part of an Agile software development team. Formal Agile methodology certification (e.g., SCRUM) is a plus.
Software analysis and design experience, including the ability to research, analyze, select and design integrations for APIs, as well as develop extensions/plugins for existing tools/components.
Experience creating software design artifacts, including the creation of functional, technical, and architectural design documentation as well as test cases and installation, deployment and configuration documentation.
Experience leading code, document and other artifact reviews.
Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards, including updating applications and code to meet security scans and meeting security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs).

Responsibilities

Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins (CloudBees), Artifactory, Kubernetes (OpenShift), Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.
Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.
Configure applications to integrate network data into an Elastic (ELK) stack hosted in an AWS cloud environment.
Configure applications in accordance to meet DoD security standards, including DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
Develop, and maintain centralized dashboards and observability solutions to monitor application health, performance, availability, security posture, infrastructure utilization, and cloud spend across environments.
Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation using metrics, logs, traces to improve incident detection, operational visibility, root cause analysis, and system reliability.
Implement cloud and infrastructure cost optimizations through resource utilization analysis, rightsizing, idle resource identification, storage and compute optimization, and FinOps best practices.
Manage enterprise certificate lifecycle operations, including certificate provisioning, renewal, rotation, expiration monitoring, and automation to ensure secure and uninterrupted service delivery.
Collaborate with DevOps, Security, Cloud, and Application Engineering teams to integrate security controls, compliance monitoring, automation, and operational standards into CI/CD pipelines and production environments.
Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team.
Frequently communicate and collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to ensure successful completion of project objectives.
Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, JUnit and/or other applicable tools.
Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues.
Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor and mitigate technical risks.