Cloud-Driven DevSecOps Platform Lead & Scrum Master

Leidos; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave

Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Lead DevSecOps Platform Engineer / Scrum Master to support FAA-related air traffic systems. This dual role on a Scaled Agile team blends Scrum Master duties with hands-on platform engineering, emphasizing secure software delivery pipelines, automation, and cloud-native deployments.

You will lead Scrum ceremonies, manage impediments, and report risks while designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, GitLab infrastructure, and Kubernetes-based deployments with Helm and GitOps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field with 4–8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience working as a Scrum Master within the Agile Scrum framework, supporting Agile and SAFe software development organizations.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines supporting enterprise software development.
• Experience developing and administering GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including GitLab Runners, pipeline templates, variables, artifacts, deployment workflows, and pipeline optimization.
• Experience administering GitLab repositories, merge requests, branching strategies, repository permissions, and source code management workflows.
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Experience deploying containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes) using Helm or comparable tools.
• Experience developing automation using Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Familiarity with Linux administration and command-line tools.
• Experience with AWS cloud services supporting modern application deployments.
• Knowledge of software supply chain security, secrets management, dependency management, and secure software development practices.
• Experience integrating automated testing and security scanning into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and lead all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Retrospectives, and Reviews/Demos, using relevant metrics and data to drive continuous improvement.
• Actively remove impediments by resolving blocking issues related to feature development, build and dependency challenges, operational support conflicts, and process.
• Provide timely status, risk, and dependency reporting to the Release Train Engineer and management, including sprint execution, team availability, and issues impacting delivery.
• Own the implementation and operation of software delivery pipelines, from build through production release, developing, administering, and maintaining automated build, test, deployment, and release workflows using GitLab CI/CD, GitLab Runners, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and related automation technologies.
• Administer GitLab platform infrastructure (projects, groups, runners, repositories, and permissions) and develop reusable CI/CD templates and pipeline libraries adopted across Agile teams.
• Design and maintain automated deployment strategies for Kubernetes-based applications utilizing Helm, GitOps methodologies, and progressive deployment techniques.
• Configure and administer GitLab Container Registry, package repositories, artifact repositories, and software dependency management solutions supporting secure software delivery.
• Collaborate with Cloud Systems Owners to ensure cloud platforms effectively support automated software deployment, scalability, operational monitoring, and application reliability.
• Partner with software development teams to improve build reliability, deployment consistency, release quality, and developer productivity through automation and self‑service engineering capabilities.
• Troubleshoot build failures, deployment issues, pipeline performance, dependency management, and software delivery problems across development, integration, and production environments.

Skills

Scrum Master

SAFe

GitLab CI/CD

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Bash/Python

Security in SDLC

CI/CD security testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

GitLab

GitLab Runners

AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodeBuild

Helm

Kubernetes

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Lead DevSecOps Platform Engineer / Scrum Master to support FAA-related air traffic systems. This dual role on a Scaled Agile team blends Scrum Master duties with hands-on platform engineering, emphasizing secure software delivery pipelines, automation, and cloud-native deployments.

You will lead Scrum ceremonies, manage impediments, and report risks while designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, GitLab infrastructure, and Kubernetes-based deployments with Helm and GitOps.