Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

The Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer in Herndon, Virginia. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience supporting the DIA's SITE III JIOC mission.

• Collaborate with a Scrum team to develop and enhance enterprise systems.
• Apply best practices in architecture design, data science, cloud services, and Dev Sec Ops .
• Automate testing and integration using Open Source and COTS tools.
• Develop and integrate bug fixes and new features using tools like Java, Git, and Junit.

Active TS/SCI with polygraph, or TS with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain a polygraph.

• A Bachelor's degree in an area applicable to the position with 12+ years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree with 10 years of relevant experience OR a PhD with 8 years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement.
• Current 8570 IAT Level II or higher cert such as CompTIA Security+ CE for Privileged User Access (PUA).
• Programming Language Experience including - but not limited to - Java, Python (Poetry, Flask, etc.) and JavaScript (emphasis on React ecosystem libraries).
• AWS technologies:
  Elasticsearch, Postgre
  
  SQL, EC2, S3, Dynamo
  
  DB, Document
  
  DB.
• Experience using modern techniques such as REST, JSON, Spring, Spring Boot, JavaScript frameworks (e.g., JQuery, Angular, React), and Docker.

• Experience using Git, Jenkins, Gitlab.

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:
February 10, 2026

For U.S. Positions:
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range: $ - $

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Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

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