Sr. Devops Engineer.

DevOps Engineer

Are you ready to join Leidos' all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path. Leidos has a current opening for a TS/SCI cleared DevOps Engineer supporting our client's overall mission to design and implement a data centric architecture that leverages on-prem and cloud-based computing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and cross-domain transfer systems. Leidos has an exciting opening for you, our next DevOps Software Engineer working with a dynamic team to design, develop and deploy a state-of-the-art technology stack supporting the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contact. Under this multi-Task Order 10-year contract, we support the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization program as well as customer's mission to centralize and standardize Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the DoD and IC enterprise. 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:

• To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, with 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

You bring enthusiasm, the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience, and meet the following qualifications:

• 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.
• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
• Comfortable working in Linux
• Experience with continuous delivery using ArgoCD
• Container or container orchestration experience, i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.
• Development experience, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

You will wow us even more if you have some of these:

• Experience with systems at scale
• Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
• 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
• Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience
• Helm and Helmfile
• Nexus

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.