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Leidos

Principal DevOps Engineer

Bethesda, MD · On-site

$131K - $237K/yr

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area . Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering ...

Motion Recruitment

Principal DevOps Engineer

Boston, MA · Hybrid

$150K/yr

Our client is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join their team in Downtown Boston. This is a full-time, direct-hire role with a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). This position is ...

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Principal DevOps Engineer

Burlington, MA · Hybrid

$163K - $185K/yr

Join us as a Principal DevOps Engineer and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward. This role will be a hybrid so working between your home office and either our Raleigh NC or ...

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Principal DevOps Engineer

Raleigh, NC · Hybrid

$163K - $185K/yr

Join us as a Principal DevOps Engineer and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward. This role will be a hybrid so working between your home office and either our Raleigh NC or ...

Progress

Principal DevOps Engineer

Burlington, MA · Hybrid

$163K - $185K/yr

Join us as a Principal DevOps Engineer and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward.  This role will be a hybrid so working between your home office and either our Raleigh NC or ...

Citi

Senior Backend Principal Developer

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

$142K - $213K/yr

The Senior Backend Principal Developer is a senior level position responsible for developing a robust collection of connected and complementary technical solutions that deliver an enterprise scale ...

Hexagon AB

Principal DevOps Engineer

Richardson, TX · On-site

$47.50 - $65.25/hr

Principal DevOps Engineer Job Location (Short): Richardson, Texas-USA Workplace Type: Hybrid Req Id: 3304 Responsibilities As Octave continues to grow, we are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer ...

Verisk

Principal DevOps Engineer

Boston, MA · On-site

$140K - $175K/yr

The Principal DevOps Engineer will lead the design of our engineering platform, standards, and automation to enable product teams to build, test, and deploy independently and safely. The role is ...

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Principal DevOps Engineer

Raleigh, NC · Hybrid

Join us as a Principal DevOps Engineer and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward.  This role will be a hybrid so working between your home office and either our Raleigh NC or ...

TXU Energy

Principal Devops Platform Engineer

Irving, TX · On-site

$120 - $160/hr

## Principal Devops Platform EngineerApplylocations: Irving, Texastime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: 40016158If you have what it takes to become part of the Vistra family and ...

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Principal DevOps Engineer

Raleigh, NC · Hybrid

$163K - $185K/yr

Join us as a Principal DevOps Engineer and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward.  This role will be a hybrid so working between your home office and either our Raleigh NC or ...

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Principal DevOps Engineer

Leidos

Bethesda, MD • On-site

$131K - $237K/yr

Full-time

Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 8 days ago

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8.3

Company rating: 8.3 out of 10

Based on 152 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

80th of 500 rated business services

Job description

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area. Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security!
Job Summary
This Principal DevOps Engineer role provides mission critical system support to our customer. You will closely work with the Development team as well as other technology stakeholders to maintain, develop and support IC enterprise products - legacy and new products - in an Agile SAFe environment. The role will also work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate systems. Additionally, this role will help automate and streamline operations and processes; as well as build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments.
Primary Responsibilities:
  • Supports software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.
  • Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevOps environment.
  • Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices
  • Codifying DevOps best practices across the enterprise
  • Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to an AWS cloud environment and other tasks.
  • Scripting and maintaining build environments.
  • Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment.

Basic Qualifications
  • Demonstrated experience setting up one or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
  • Demonstrated experience troubleshooting issues with two or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
  • Demonstrated experience working within a software development team and supporting developers and developer activities.
  • Bachelors degree with 12 or more years of prior relevant work experience or Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant work experience. Will consider additional work experience in lieu of a degree.
  • To be considered must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance

Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's degree in science, technical, or engineering discipline.
  • AWS Associate Certification (Developer, Solution Architect, or Sys Ops Administrator)
  • AWS Professional Certification (DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect)
  • Demonstrated experience in container orchestration using Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS/ECR
  • Demonstrated experience with Languages including Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and Unix shell Scripting
  • Demonstrated experience with Ansible, or Puppet.

At Leidos, the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that allow them to thrive professionally and personally. For us, helping you grow your career is good business. We look forward to learning more about you - apply today.
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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:
January 21, 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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At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable practices. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community.

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