Principal DevOps Engineer

Description

Leidos has an opportunity for a Principal Dev Ops Engineer in the National Security Sector’s Cyber & Analytics Business Area. The role supports mission‑critical systems, working closely with development and other stakeholders to maintain, develop, and support enterprise products in an Agile SAFe environment. Responsibilities include deployment, automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting across dev, test, and production environments.

The Principal Dev Ops Engineer provides mission critical system support, collaborates with software engineering teams to deploy and operate systems, automates operations, and builds tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations. The role also helps maintain toolchain, scripting, and continuous integration/deployment processes.

• Supports software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.
• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the Dev Ops environment.
• Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices.
• Codifying Dev Ops best practices across the enterprise.
• Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment in an AWS cloud environment and other tasks.
• Scripting and maintaining build environments.
• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the Dev Ops environment.

• Demonstrated experience setting up Git Hub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, or Katalon Studio.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting issues with two or more of those tools.
• Experience working within a software development team and supporting developers.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or Master’s degree with 10+ years of relevant experience (additional work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree).
• To be considered must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance.

• Master’s degree in science, technical, or engineering discipline.
• AWS Associate Certification (Developer, Solution Architect, or Sys Ops Administrator).
• AWS Professional Certification (Dev Ops Engineer or Solutions Architect).
• Experience with container orchestration using Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS/ECR.
• Experience with Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and Unix shell scripting.
• Experience with Ansible or Puppet.

Competitive compensation, paid time off, 11 paid holidays, 401(k) with 6% employer match, flexible schedules, stock purchase plans, technical upskilling, education and training support, and paid parental leave.

$ – $ (guideline; actual compensation is determined by experience, education, and other factors).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, disability, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.