Principal DevOps Engineer

Leidos LLC; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

401(k) with 6% company match

Flexible schedules

Technical upskilling support

Parental paid leave

Job summary

Leidos LLC is looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer in Bethesda, Maryland. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting mission-critical system operations, managing DevOps environments, and maintaining CI/CD processes in an Agile SAFe environment.

Applicants should have at least 12 years of relevant experience or a Master’s with 10 years and must hold an active TS/SCI security clearance. Competitive benefits include a 401(k) plan, flexible schedules, and more.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience with Bachelor's or 10+ years with Master's.
• Active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Support software deployments and operational availability.
• Manage and maintain DevOps environment components.
• Define CI/CD processes and best practices.
• Automate tool deployment to AWS.

Skills

AWS Cloud

DevOps Practices

Scripting

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in relevant field

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Katalon Studio

Job description

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principal DevOps 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.

Competitive benefits include Paid Time Off, 11 paid holidays, 401(k) with a 6% company match, flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, technical upskilling, education and training support, and parental paid leave.

Job Summary: This Principal 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 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.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12 or more years of prior relevant work experience or Master’s 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.

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.