Software Developer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing

Description
The Leidos Digital Modernization Group is seeking a Software Developer to support the Global Solutions Management – Operations II (GSM-O II) contract as part of the Global Automations & Intelligent Network Solutions (GAINS) Team. This position offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, mission-focused environment supporting large-scale enterprise monitoring, data integration, and automation initiatives across distributed infrastructure environments.

The selected candidate will serve as a hands-on developer focused on building, integrating, troubleshooting, and sustaining enterprise monitoring and data pipeline solutions leveraging the Elastic Stack (ELK) and Confluent Kafka platforms. The role emphasizes software development, platform integration, operational monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and performance optimization across complex network and cloud environments.

As a key Agile scrum team member, the candidate will collaborate closely with software developers, systems engineers, network engineers, operations personnel, and partner scrum teams to deliver scalable and resilient integration, monitoring, and observability solutions supporting enterprise operational users and mission requirements. The candidate will work across teams to coordinate dependencies, support integration efforts, and ensure successful delivery of shared capabilities within an Agile development environment.

The role requires strong troubleshooting skills, operational awareness, and the ability to independently resolve complex software, infrastructure, and platform issues.

Primary Responsibilities:

Support implementation, integration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of the Elasti Flow Net Observ application to provide network flow visibility, telemetry analytics, and operational monitoring across enterprise and cloud network environments.
Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to improve observability, monitoring automation, incident response, platform reliability, and operational support for Elastic-based services and enterprise network monitoring platforms.
Support modernization and sustainment of a multi-vendor enterprise network infrastructure, including network monitoring, performance management, security management, and authentication solutions migrating into AWS cloud environments.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable software and automation solutions supporting enterprise network operations, monitoring, and analytics capabilities.
Analyze operational, functional, and performance requirements to support system design, testing, integration, and deployment activities.
Collaborate with systems engineers, architects, and development teams to ensure deployments align with approved designs, security requirements, and operational objectives.
Develop, test, and deploy software applications, APIs, and automation tools using Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL, and related technologies.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain Kafka and Elastic clusters across development, test, and production environments.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Docker, Kubernetes, Artifactory, and Ansible.
Support system integration, deployment validation, troubleshooting, and operational sustainment activities across distributed environments.
Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning, daily standups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
Troubleshoot and resolve software, infrastructure, network, and system integration issues.
Independently identify, communicate, and mitigate technical risks and implementation challenges.
Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams, stakeholders, and mission partners to support successful delivery of project objectives.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field with 4+ years of relevant experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
Experience supporting enterprise network infrastructure environments, including network monitoring, authentication, security, and operational support technologies.
Experience developing…