Software Developer

Leidos; Odenton (MD); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave

Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to support DISA GSM-O II. The role emphasizes automated CI/CD, security hardening, and cloud deployments in AWS, with focus on Elastic/Kafka stacks and DoD compliance. This is a remote-first role with required on-site support near Ft. Meade, MD or Scott AFB, IL as needed.

You will work closely with DevOps, Security, Cloud, and App teams in a distributed Agile environment to deliver secure, reliable systems and dashboards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with 4–8 years of experience or Master’s with 2–6 years.
• Experience in Agile software development and rapid learning on growing projects.
• Proficient in Git/Bitbucket, Linux, and CI/CD toolchains.

Responsibilities

• Develop automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Artifactory, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.
• Deploy and maintain Kafka/Elastic clusters and integrations in AWS cloud.
• Apply DoD STIGs and configure security controls in pipelines and deployments.
• Build centralized dashboards for health, performance, security posture, and FinOps.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, Cloud and App teams in an Agile, distributed setup.

Skills

DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

Bitbucket

Ansible

ELK Stack

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

Ansible

ELK/Elastic

Artifactory

Job description

Description

The Digital Sector has a career opportunity for a DevSecOps Engineer supporting the Global Solutions Management – Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at DISA. This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA’s operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA’s mission partners.

While this role is primarily remote one must live within commuting distance to Scott AFB, IL or Ft. Meade, MD for on-site support. A Secret clearance is required upon the start of employment and within 14 days following the start date the employee must obtain their Security + certification.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins (CloudBees), Artifactory, Kubernetes (OpenShift), Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.
• Assist with the deployment, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, updates/upgrades of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.
• Configure applications to integrate network data into an Elastic (ELK) stack hosted in an AWS cloud environment.
• Configure applications in accordance to meet DoD security standards, including DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• Develop, and maintain centralized dashboards and observability solutions to monitor application health, performance, availability, security posture, infrastructure utilization, and cloud spend across environments.
• Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation using metrics, logs, traces to improve incident detection, operational visibility, root cause analysis, and system reliability.
• Implement cloud and infrastructure cost optimizations through resource utilization analysis, rightsizing, idle resource identification, storage and compute optimization, and FinOps best practices.
• Manage enterprise certificate lifecycle operations, including certificate provisioning, renewal, rotation, expiration monitoring, and automation to ensure secure and uninterrupted service delivery.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, Cloud, and Application Engineering teams to integrate security controls, compliance monitoring, automation, and operational standards into CI/CD pipelines and production environments.
• Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team.
• Frequently communicate and collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to ensure successful completion of project objectives.
• Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, JUnit and/or other applicable tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues.
• Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor and mitigate technical risks.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.
• Ability to multi-task, self-assign work, and work in a geographically distributed team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
• Experience developing software on a Linux platform.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
• Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and attention to detail, including excellent organizational and documentation skills.
• Ability to obtain an interim DoD Secret security clearance prior to start date.
• Ability to obtain a security certification that meets DOD 8570 IAT level II or higher, such as Security+ CE or CISSP, within 60 days of start date.

Preferred Qualifications

• Full software lifecycle experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
• Experience developing software in an Agile environment, including the ability to quickly learn new technologies on a rapidly growing project.
• Software development experience with Python and Java and SQL, including integration experience with JSON/REST web services, as well as the parsing, generation and validation of JSON. Working knowledge of JavaScript.
• Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
• Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
• Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Working knowledge of Git and experience with development workflows in GitHub, Bitbucket or an equivalent tool.
• Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team.
• Experience working as part of an Agile software development team. Formal Agile methodology certification (e.g., SCRUM) is a plus.
• Software analysis and design experience, including the ability to research, analyze, select and design integrations for APIs, as well as develop extensions/plugins for existing tools/components.
• Experience creating software design artifacts, including the creation of functional, technical, and architectural design documentation as well as test cases and installation, deployment and configuration documentation.
• Experience leading code, document and other artifact reviews.
• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards, including updating applications and code to meet security scans and meeting security implementation guidelines (e.g., STIGs).
• Currently possess an active DoD Secret or higher security clearance.
• Hold an active security certification that meets DOD 8570 IAT level II or higher, such as Security+ CE or CISSP.

Pay and Benefits

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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.

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