Cloud​/SecDevOps Engineer Jobs

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As the largest provider of US government IT services, Leidos develops and sustains large data and technology infrastructures and integrates complex law enforcement IT system for a number of US federal agencies. At Leidos, we offer engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals and growth. This role would be serving a federal law enforcement agency in Clarksburg, WV.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring operational and development systems, investigating and resolving system user issues reported with these systems with regard to the integration of security architecture & engineering efforts into the information technology life-cycle in an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) cloud-based environment.
• Leveraging knowledge of the deployed IaC, ensures integrated security concepts, controls, and mechanisms deployed into the design and architecture phases to produce a reliably secure product.
• May also assist with the deployment of patching of systems, the engineering, implementation, integration, maintenance and improvement of systems.
• Additional responsibilities include technical Agile work tracking and planning, technical design, development and integration, verification and validation.
• The environment requires monitoring multiple physical and cloud-based sites, and monitoring, supporting users and administering the IaC security, configuring necessary components and software utilizing IaC utilities.

Responsibilities may also include:

• Software change management.
• Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks.
• Operates with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems.
• Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.
• Works to achieve day-to-day objectives with moderate impact on the area/ project team.
• Works independently on larger, moderately complex projects/assignments.
• May assist other technical staff with tasks and assignments.
• Addresses somewhat complex technical issues/problems using internal best practice and through collaboration with colleagues.
• Develops solutions to technical problems that require depth of technical knowledge, but are typically limited in complexity.

Preferred Experience:

• Infrastructure management:
  Set up and maintain infrastructure, including servers and cloud systems
• Immutable Infrastructure & AMI Design:
  Expertise in designing AMIs using automated tools like Hashi Corp Packer; specifically incorporating Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) installation and optimization into the image build process.
• Process automation:
  Create and maintain automated processes for testing, deployment, and security
• Automated Image Pipelines:
  Experience integrating image builds into a CI/CD lifecycle (e.g., Git Lab CI) to ensure AMIs are patched, hardened, and updated without manual intervention.
• Configuration Management (Ansible):
  Experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and roles to automate the configuration of secure, STIG-compliant operating systems.
• Virtualization & Remote Display:
  Understanding of Citrix infrastructure components and the ability to troubleshoot VDA registration, session latency, and display protocol issues (ICA/HDX) on cloud-hosted instances.
• Communication:
  Collaborate with development, operations, and other teams to ensure effective communication
• Troubleshooting:
  Identify and fix issues in production, and monitor system performance
• Product updates:
  Launch product updates, and create integrations to improve the user experience
• Cybersecurity:
  Incorporate cybersecurity best practices as directed into processes

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, other related discipline, or equivalent experience;
  Cyber Security and IaC certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree
• 2-4 years of relevant experience
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently to develop creative solutions
• Ability to work well and productively within a small team environment both in-person and remote telework
• Self Starter
• Strong communication skills
• US Citizenship
• DOD Top Secret Clearance is required.

Technologies Desired:

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Kubernetes
• Istio
• AWS: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• Grafana
• Gitlab

Preferred Qualifications:

• Operating Systems:
  Linux
• Software development tools:
  Eclipse, Vscode, Gitlab, Jira, Confluence
• Languages/frameworks:
  Jira
• Source control tools:
  Gitlab