DevOps Engineer

Leidos • Chantilly, VA

30d

About The Position

Leidos is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 200+ 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. This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months. Primary 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, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck • Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON • Experience with AWS CLI • Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward • Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model • 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 including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• BA/BS degree and 12+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
• Expert in Linux operating system usage
• Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Rundeck
• 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 scripting and using AWS services including Cloudformation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)
• Experience with Nexus administration
• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• 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
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a production environment.
• Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and security best practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Elastic tools
• Experience working in the Sponsor’s cloud environments
• Experience with Nexus administration and maintenance
• Experience with Sponsor’s release management tools and processes
• AWS certification
• Container-related certification
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification, demonstrating expertise in designing, building and running applications on Kubernetes.

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, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck
• Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON
• Experience with AWS CLI
• Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward
• Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model
• 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 including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months

Benefits

• Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision.
• That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers.
• Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.
• More details are available here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level