Leidos is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months.
Primary Responsibilities
Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience
Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions
Have experience with DevOps pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as CloudFormation, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck
Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON
Experience with AWS CLI
Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward
Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model
Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage GitFlow constructs
Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers
System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months
Required Qualifications
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
BA/BS degree and 12+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
Expert in Linux operating system usage
Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Rundeck
Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices
Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit
Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo
Experience scripting and using AWS services including Cloudformation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.
Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)
Experience with Nexus administration
Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Well versed with using version control systems
Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a
production environment.
Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and
security best practices.
Desired Qualifications
Experience with Elastic tools
Experience working in the Sponsor's cloud environments
Experience with Nexus administration and maintenance
Experience with Sponsor's release management tools and processes
AWS certification
Container-related certification
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification, demonstrating expertise in designing, building and running applications on Kubernetes.
FIP
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Original Posting:
March 12, 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:
Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
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.
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- Dice Id: SCNCAPI2
- Position Id: 97a68d8029c0dee4f2e0f5e0c4d66e82
- Posted 16 days ago
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