LE Principal DevOps Engineer Leidos · Bethesda · DevOps & Release $131,300–$237,350 10d ago

Devopsroles; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

11 paid Holidays

401K with company match

Flexible schedules

Education and training support

Parental Paid Leave

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to support IC enterprise products in an Agile SAFe environment. You will work with development and tech stakeholders to deploy and operate systems, build automation, and streamline operations across dev, test, and production.

The role emphasizes CI/CD, cloud deployments, scripting, and collaboration with multiple teams to improve deployment, monitoring, and operation efficiency. Active TS/SCI with polygraph is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with the listed DevOps tools and CI/CD workflows.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with extensive relevant work history.
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Supports software deployments and production system availability.
• Builds, configures, administers, and maintains DevOps components.
• Defines enterprise CI/CD processes and best practices.
• Codifies DevOps best practices across the enterprise.
• Develops and maintains scripts to automate AWS deployments and other tasks.
• Scripts and maintains build environments; integrates products into DevOps.

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript

Ruby

PHP

Unix shell Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Katalon Studio

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS ECS/ECR

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Leidoshas an exciting opportunity for a PrincipalDevOps 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 PrincipalDevOps 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.

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.
• Bachelors degree with 12 or more years of prior relevant work experience or Masters with 10 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

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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:

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 as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.