Kubernetes DevOps Engineer: TS/SCI Cloud-Native

Leidos LLC; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave and Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is actively seeking experienced DevOps Engineers to advance a Kubernetes-native platform that orchestrates and deploys workloads across its cluster. You will work on backend architecture with cloud-native tooling, focusing on Go, TypeScript, and Python.

The role demands collaboration across teams to ensure reliability, observability, and seamless system integration, while maintaining rigorous documentation and development standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of additional experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Level 0 - Bachelors and 2-7 years of experience
• Level 1 - Bachelors and 7-14 years of experience
• Level 2 - Bachelors and 14-20 years of experience
• Level 3 - Bachelors and 20 or more years of experience
• Expertise in infrastructure provisioning, Ansible CM, and cloud-native ecosystems.
• Proficiency with at least one of the following languages Go (Golang), TypeScript, or Python,
• Strong experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows.
• Exceptional debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and advance a Kubernetes-native workload orchestration application.
• Develop and maintain containerized microservices.
• Support infrastructure provisioning and automation via Ansible and IaC tools.
• Implement cloud-native components leveraging Go, TypeScript, and Python.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure operational excellence and system integration.
• Improve platform observability and event-driven system performance.
• Maintain robust documentation and enforce internal development standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

TypeScript

Python

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Cloud-native architectures

Observability tooling

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Kafka

NiFi

MetalLB

MinIO

Prometheus

Grafana

Rancher Suite

Terraform

Cloud-init

Ansible

Jira

Bamboo

Fisheye

Job description

Leidos is actively seeking experienced DevOps Engineers to advance a Kubernetes-native platform that orchestrates and deploys workloads across its cluster. You will work on backend architecture with cloud-native tooling, focusing on Go, TypeScript, and Python.

The role demands collaboration across teams to ensure reliability, observability, and seamless system integration, while maintaining rigorous documentation and development standards.