Principal DevOps Engineer

Come put your DevOps skills into action! The Leidos Office of Technology has openings for talented DevOps Engineers to join our team and develop reusable solutions that support our customers in any environment. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the design and implementation Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that accelerate the secure delivery of software to production. You will automate the buildout of infrastructure in the cloud and deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters and microservices deployments. 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 fast-paced, and fun environment.

Primary Responsibilities
•Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical infrastructure
•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.
•Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for the team.
•Make 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
•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline and 12–15 years of experience in a relevant field, or Master’s degree with 10–13 years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
•Mastery of Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices.
•Experience background with software design patterns and programming languages.
•Excellent problem solving and analysis skills.
•Self-starter that can work independently while possessing the communication skills to work effectively with software development teams and customers.
•Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
•Ability to own entire projects or processes within a technical area.
•Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff.
•Ability to obtain U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.
•Ability to support program execution in classified environments.

Preferred Qualifications
•Expertise with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS)
•Expertise provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
•Expertise with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
•Expertise with automation tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies
•Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux CD, Fleet or similar
•Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar.
 

Original Posting Date:

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:

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.