Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud & ICAM Automation

Devopsroles; Chantilly (VA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a DevOps Engineer to deliver modern ICAM solutions on a 200+ FTE program. The role focuses on building robust systems and software in the cloud, following DevOps practices across the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities include designing and automating development, test, and production environments, breaking down high-level requirements, and using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, and Confluence to drive delivery and documentation.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
• BS degree with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration / continuous development.
• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter.
• Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Well versed with using version control systems such as git.
• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems.
• Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices.
• Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
• Interested and eager to learn.

Responsibilities

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement.
• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
• Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
• Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services.
• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases.
• Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs.
• Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting.
• Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments.
• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures.
• Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures.
• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Skills

Software development lifecycle

CI/CD

Agile practices

Communication skills

Independent problem solving

Version control (Git)

Education

BS degree with 12+ years of experience

Tools

JMeter

Git

JIRA

Confluence

Puppet

Shell scripting

NodeJS

ElasticSearch

NESTJS

Swagger

OpenSearch

AWS

Azure

Oracle Cloud

Google Cloud

EFS

MySQL

RDS

Job description

Leidos is seeking a DevOps Engineer to deliver modern ICAM solutions on a 200+ FTE program. The role focuses on building robust systems and software in the cloud, following DevOps practices across the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities include designing and automating development, test, and production environments, breaking down high-level requirements, and using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, and Confluence to drive delivery and documentation.