DevOps Engineer

Join Leidos Digital Sector as we stand up a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization delivering real digital transformation where it matters most. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to architect build and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of some of our nations most sensitive and critical missions.

What to expect:

• Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases
• Full-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington DC will be required as the program matures
• A collaborative Agile environment where your input shapes the architecture from day one
• Dev platform based on ServiceNow Elastic Kafka AWS and RedHat

What youll need:

• An active TS/SCI clearance (required for consideration)
• Willingness to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment
• Current Security certification or higher/equivalent

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:

• Bachelors degree in a relevant technical discipline plus 8 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• An active TS/SCI clearance
• Willingness to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment
• Current Security certification or higher/equivalent
• 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).

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