DevOps Engineer SME

Leidos; United States; On-site; USD 154,050 - 278,475; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

401K with a 6% company match

Flexible Schedules

Technical Upskilling

Education and Training Support

Job summary

A technology and engineering company seeks a DevOps Engineer to support mission-critical systems in a dynamic Agile environment. The role involves deploying and operating products while automating operations and maintaining cloud infrastructure. Candidates must possess a Master's degree and experience with tools like GitHub and AWS. A TS/SCI clearance is required. Competitive pay and excellent benefits such as a 401K plan. Join us in enhancing national security.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance is necessary.
• 15+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent additional work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience working within a software development team supporting developers.

Responsibilities

• Support software deployments and maintain operational availability of production systems.
• Manage and maintain all components of the DevOps environment.
• Define Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes.

Skills

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Katalon Studio

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Scripting

Education

Master's degree in a related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Description

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer (SME) in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Are). 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 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 collaborate with software engineering to deploy and operate systems. Additionally, this role will help automate and streamline operations and processes, 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.
• Master's with 15 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.

CABARESTON

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.

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.

Pay Range

$154,050.00 – $278,475.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, market data, applicable agreements, 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 $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave, and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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.