Junior DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, Containers & Deployments

Leidos; United States; On-site; USD 69,550 - 125,725; Full time

Job summary

Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos-owned company, seeks a Junior DevOps Engineer to help deploy and maintain development and production environments. You will collaborate on CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments, supporting monitoring and incident response in an Agile team.

Qualifications include TS/SCI clearance, 1–3 years in DevOps or related fields, Linux administration, and experience with Docker, GitLab CI/CD, and infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship with TS/SCI and Counter-Intelligence Polygraph clearance.
• 1-3 years of experience in DevOps, SysOps, or Infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• Familiarity with Linux system administration.
• Experience with Docker or containerized applications.
• Basic experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD.
• Exposure to infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
• Experience troubleshooting deployment or environment issues.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Ability to work within an Agile Scrum team.
• Self-starter requiring moderate supervision.

Responsibilities

• Support deployment and maintenance of development and production environments.
• Assist with CI/CD pipeline implementation and troubleshooting.
• Monitor system health, logging, and alerting platforms.
• Support container orchestration and infrastructure automation efforts.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment-related issues.
• Assist with onboarding users and environment access requests.
• Document operational procedures and deployment processes.
• Work closely with software developers to improve deployment reliability.

Skills

Linux

Agile Scrum

Troubleshooting

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Kubernetes

Job description

Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos-owned company, seeks a Junior DevOps Engineer to help deploy and maintain development and production environments. You will collaborate on CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments, supporting monitoring and incident response in an Agile team.

Qualifications include TS/SCI clearance, 1–3 years in DevOps or related fields, Linux administration, and experience with Docker, GitLab CI/CD, and infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.