DevOps Engineer

Join Leidos' Digital Sector as we stand up a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization, delivering real digital transformation where it matters most. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to architect, build, and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of some of our nation's most sensitive and critical missions.

What to expect:

Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases

Full-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program maturesA collaborative, Agile environment where your input shapes the architecture from day oneDev platform based on Service Now, Elastic, Kafka, AWS and Red Hat What  you'll need:

An active TS/SCI clearance (required for consideration)
Willingness to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment

Current Security+ certification or higher/equivalent

Primary Responsibilities:

Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins (Cloud Bees), Artifactory, Kubernetes (Open Shift), Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.

Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.

Configure applications to integrate network data into an Elastic (ELK) stack hosted in an AWS cloud environment.

Configure applications in accordance to meet DoD security standards, including DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).Develop, and maintain centralized dashboards and observability solutions to monitor application health, performance, availability, security posture, infrastructure utilization, and cloud spend across environments.

Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation using metrics, logs, traces to improve incident detection, operational visibility, root cause analysis, and system reliability.

Implement cloud and infrastructure cost optimizations through resource utilization analysis, rightsizing, idle resource identification, storage and compute optimization, and Fin Ops best practices.

Manage enterprise certificate lifecycle operations, including certificate provisioning, renewal, rotation, expiration monitoring, and automation to ensure secure and uninterrupted service delivery.

Collaborate with Dev Ops, Security, Cloud, and Application Engineering teams to integrate security controls, compliance monitoring, automation, and operational standards into CI/CD pipelines and production environments.

Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team.

Frequently communicate and collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to ensure successful completion of project objectives.

Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, JUnit and/or other applicable tools.

Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues.

Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor and mitigate technical risks.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.

An active TS/SCI clearance

Willingness to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment

Current Security+ certification or higher/equivalent

Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.

Ability to multi-task, self-assign work, and work in a geographically distributed team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.

Experience developing software on a Linux platform.

Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.

Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.

Demonstrated leadership skills and attention to detail, including excellent organizational and documentation skills.

Ability to obtain an interim DoD Secret security clearance prior to start date.

Ability to obtain a security certification that meets DOD 8570 IAT level II or higher, such as Security+ CE or CISSP, within 60 days of start date.

Preferred Qualifications:

Full software lifecycle…