DevOps Engineer Expert

Leidos LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a senior software engineer in Chantilly, VA to advance automation and DevOps initiatives. You will design, develop, and troubleshoot automation solutions across development, test, and production environments, taking high-level requirements from senior staff and breaking them into actionable tasks.

You will coordinate with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to align stories with customer use cases, document deployments, and apply best practices.

Qualifications

• BS degree required with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Expert in the software development lifecycle and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with DevOps toolsets and performance testing.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Excellent communication skills and strong Git usage.

Responsibilities

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
• Break down high level requirements from senior engineers into implementable tasks.
• Coordinate with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment with customer use cases.
• Document and deploy build artifacts across different environments.
• Leverage GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting; use Jira/Confluence to track activities.

Skills

TS/SCI with Polygraph

Software Development Lifecycle

DevOps practices

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Git/Jenkins

Unix Bash scripting

Education

BS degree

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Unix Bash scripting

AWS

OpenSearch

Oracle Cloud

Google Cloud

Azure

Job description

Primary Responsibilities

Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement, Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments. Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation. Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program. Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness. Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Required Skills

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Requires a BS degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree. Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration / continuous development Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure) Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.) Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) Well versed with using version control systems such as git Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.

Desired Skills

Experience in programming with Java, JavaScript Experience with puppet, shell scripting, NESTJS, Swagger, NodeJS, ElasticSearch UX best practices and Human Centered Design. Experience in AWS Data management services Experience with the authentication, identity and access management AWS DevOps and/or SysOps certifications Hands on database experience with MySQL, RDS and Oracle Experience with containerization.

Interested and eager to learn

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

August 19, 2026

Pay Range

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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave and Retirement

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for customers. More details are available here.

Securing Your Data

Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to [e-mail].

Commitment and Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.