DevOps Engineer

Description

At Leidos, everything we do is built on our commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our employees, and our communities. Learn more about the values and culture that are the foundations of our business. Our mission is to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through information technology, engineering, and science. We offer a robust benefits package including competitive salaries; 401K Retirement Plan; comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage; flexible work schedule to allow for life/work balance; tuition reimbursement and more.

Come put your DevOps skills into action! The Leidos Defense Group is looking for talented DevOps Engineers to work in one of our state of the art Leidos Software Factories in Charlottesville, VA. In this role, you will join dynamic Agile software teams that are singularly focused on providing world-class solutions to our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive atmosphere. You will be intellectually challenged and provided with a tremendous opportunity for growth in a customer-facing, fast-paced, and fun environment.

This position will require you to obtain a US DoD Secret security clearance. There may be a possibility of a hybrid work schedule.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.

• Manage private and public cloud infrastructures via code, designing reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly-available, secure architectures for cloud-based applications.

• Enable the continuous integration and continuous delivery of our diverse suite of software products by applying best practices for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and automated software deployments.

• Continually evaluate and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams.

• Develop migration solutions to move content (source code, artifacts, tracking tickets, documentation, CI/CD pipelines, etc.) to other environments and/or tools.

• Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for the team.

• Makes process and program recommendations to the project or program.

• Own entire projects or processes within a technical area.

• Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower level technical staff.

Basic Qualifications/What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline and 4-8 years of experience in a relevant field. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices.

• Fundamental background with software design patterns and programming languages.

• Ability to own entire projects or processes within a technical area.

• Ability to coach and review the work of junior level technical staff.

Security Clearance Requirement:

Per customer's requirement, you must be a US citizen in order to be able to obtain a U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.

• Ability to support program execution in classified environments.

• Excellent problem solving and analysis skills.

• Self-starter that is able to work independently while possessing the communication skills to work effectively with software development teams and customers.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS)

• Experience provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)

• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes

• Experience with GitOps tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies

• Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar.

Pay Range:

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.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 45,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.  For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.

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Commitment to Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.