Senior Platform Engineer
About The Position
Leidos is seeking a Secret-cleared Senior Platform Engineer for the Decision Advantage Business Area within Defense. The engineer will support the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Digital Infrastructure (DI) Processing Node (PN) team, designing and implementing secure solutions that can be delivered at speed and scale to support the Department of Defense Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and provide operational advantages to the joint warfighter. ABMS is a Department of the Air Force modernization priority and will support a network-centric approach to battle management in partnership with the services across JADC2. The position works closely with program managers, domain engineers, and Government counterparts across Government and industry partners. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and troubleshooting deployment automation; integrating technologies into orchestrated solutions; identifying technology gaps and developing ways to address them; and creating installation, integration, and test procedures. The engineer automates manual procedures, documents work clearly, demonstrates solutions to varied audiences, participates in Agile ceremonies, and helps teammates succeed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 8–12 years of prior relevant experience, or a master's degree and 6–10 years of prior relevant experience; additional relevant experience may substitute for a degree.
- U.S. citizenship and an active Secret security clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
- 10 or more years of hands-on experience establishing and growing DevSecOps frameworks, specifically using Rancher, ArgoCD, and FluxCD for GitOps at scale.
- Deep understanding of Helm for package management and maintaining large-scale containerized PaaS environments such as RKE2.
- Proficiency in modular infrastructure automation with Terraform and Terragrunt, including state management and CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Professional experience deploying and managing HashiCorp Enterprise solutions in high-compliance or production-grade environments.
- Experience automating system management tasks to enforce desired state and prevent configuration drift, using custom scripts and playbooks with Ansible, Bash, or Python.
- Experience automating system integration using container technologies such as Docker, Podman, Docker Compose, or Podman Compose under version control such as Git, and using IaC tools and frameworks to automate server and OS deployments such as PXE boot, DHCP, and Kickstart.
- Linux systems administration and security experience.
- Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware and KVM, and third-party software such as Nginx, Vault, CoreDNS, dnsmasq, and Artifactory.
- Basic understanding of computer networks, related hardware, DNS, and Linux host-based network management, including configuring network interfaces and firewalls.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot DIPN deployment automations.
- Integrate familiar and unfamiliar technologies into orchestrated solutions.
- Analyze gaps in technology solutions and design paths to close them.
- Follow team leaders' direction on implementation and scope.
- Develop and follow installation, integration, and test procedures.
- Automate manual procedures.
- Document procedures clearly and unambiguously.
- Demonstrate work to a variety of audiences.
- Participate in and contribute to Agile ceremonies, including daily scrum, Sprint and Program Increment planning, and retrospectives.
- Help teammates succeed in their tasking.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
