DevOps Engineer

Leidos; Bethesda (AR); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

11 paid holidays

401K with company match and vesting

Flexible schedules

Discounted stock purchase plans

Technical upskilling

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support IC enterprise products in an Agile SAFe environment. You’ll work with development and tech stakeholders to deploy, operate, and automate systems, build tools for deployment, monitoring, and issue resolution across dev, test, and production environments.

The role emphasizes CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and collaboration with software engineering to streamline operations and improve deployment efficiency. A TS/SCI clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance is required.
• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of relevant work experience or Master’s with 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Will consider additional work experience in lieu of a degree.

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.

Skills

Software development collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Katalon Studio

Job description

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a 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 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.

Required 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 4 or more years of prior relevant work experience or Masters with 2 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

• 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 –.

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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

October 27, 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 $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

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.