DevOps Engineer Expert Job Chantilly area,Virginia USA,IT/Tech

Description

Leidos is looking for a Dev Ops Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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.

Description

Primary

Responsibilities

Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs
Use industry leading Dev Ops tools like Git Hub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting
Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments
Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures
Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures
Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Required Skills;

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Requires a BS degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within Dev Ops toolsets/practices and continuous integration / continuous development
Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter
Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure)
Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, Open Search, EFS, etc.)
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Well versed with using version control systems such as git
Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices
Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
Interested and eager to learn

Desired Skills

Experience in programming with Java, Java Script
Experience with puppet, shell scripting, NESTJS, Swagger, NodeJS, Elastic Search
UX best practices and Human Centered Design.
Experience in AWS Data management services
Experience with the authentication, identity and access management
AWS Dev Ops and/or Sys Ops certifications
Hands on database experience with MySQL, RDS and Oracle
Experience with containerization

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.

Original Posting

August 19, 2026

Pay Range

Pay Range $ - $

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial…