DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

Description

This is not a maintenance role. This is a reinvention role.

Come put your site reliability skills into action! The Leidos Software Accelerator has openings for talented Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to design and build Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that accelerate the secure delivery of software to production. You will automate the buildout of infrastructure in the cloud, on-prem, and at the edge. You will deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters and microservice deployments. You will take an active part in building and supporting our cutting-edge mission platform. In this role, you will join dynamic, agile software teams that are singularly focused on providing world-class solutions for our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive atmosphere. You will be intellectually challenged and provided with a tremendous opportunity for growth in a customer-facing, fast-paced, and fun environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical infrastructure
• Manage private and public cloud infrastructures via code, designing reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly-available, secure architectures for cloud-based applications.
• Enable the continuous integration and continuous delivery of our diverse suite of software products by applying best practices for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and automated software deployments.
• Continually evaluate and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams.
• Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for the team.
• Makes process and program recommendations to the project or program.
• Own entire projects or processes within a technical area.
• Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 2+ years of experience in a relevant field. Additional Experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices.
• Fundamental background with software design patterns and programming languages.
• Excellent problem solving and analysis skills.
• Self-starter that is able to work independently while possessing the communication skills to work effectively with software development teams and customers.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to own entire projects or processes within a technical area.
• Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff.
• Ability to obtain U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.
• Ability to support program execution in classified environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS)
• Experience provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Experience with automation tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux CD, Fleet or similar
• Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar.

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.

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

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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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.