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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

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:March 12, 2026Pay Range:Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

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.