DevOps Engineer with Security Clearance

R- Description Are you ready to join Leidos' all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path. Leidos has an exciting opening for you, our next DevOps Software Engineer working with a dynamic team to design, develop and deploy a state-of-the-art technology stack supporting DIA's Science and Technology Directorate . Under a multi-Task Order 10-year contract, we support the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization program as well as the Open Source Intelligence Integration Center (OSIC) mission to centralize and standardize Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the DoD and IC enterprise. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values inclusion, innovation, collaboration, and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. As a DevOps Engineer you will contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration. You will participate in fostering a DevOps culture, building strong cross functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast paced environment. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of developers, other software integrators and system administrators on the following key tasks: To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging
Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments
Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
Use SaltStack, ArgoCD, and Helm to provision and manage virtual resources, automate deployments across multiple cloud-based environments, and to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
Collaborate with System Engineers to design/implement new CI/CD processes
Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
Participate in Scaled Agile ceremonies (increment and sprint planning, review, demo, retrospective), bug triage, design sessions and other meetings as necessary You bring enthusiasm, the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience, and meet the following qualifications: BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master's degree.
Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
You have the ability to quickly problem solve and pick up new techniques/technologies, and maintain an active interest in continuous learning and self-improvement
Comfortable working in Linux
Experience using GitLab and GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, and Artifactory
Experience and/or certification with AWS
Container or container orchestration experience, i.e. Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.
Development experience, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
Demonstrated ability to identify and plan DevOps work for a team of people and/or leading a DevOps implementation You will wow us even more if you have some of these: Experience with systems at scale
Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
Experience on a production/ enterprise system
Experience with any of the following technologies:
Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana
GPU-based Kubernetes
SALT for deployment automation
Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, specifically admin experience
Helm and Helmfile
Nexus
Artifactory Original Posting: May 8, 2025
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: Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.