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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 onlyand 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.

REQNUMBER: R-00158976

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.