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.
Primary Responsibilities
- Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
- Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
- Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
- Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
- Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
- Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
- Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs
- Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting
- Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments
- Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
- Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures
- Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures
- Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.
Required Skills;
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- Requires a BS degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
- Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration / continuous development
- Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter
- Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Well versed with using version control systems such as git
- Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
- Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices
- Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
- Interested and eager to learn
Desired Skills
- Experience in programming with Java, JavaScript
- Experience with puppet, shell scripting, NESTJS, Swagger, NodeJS, ElasticSearch
- UX best practices and Human Centered Design.
- Experience in AWS Data management services
- Experience with the authentication, identity and access management
- AWS DevOps and/or SysOps certifications
- Hands on database experience with MySQL, RDS and Oracle
- Experience with containerization
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Original Posting:August 19, 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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