Leidos is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,

• Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems

• Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services

• Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience

• Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions

• Have experience with DevOps pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as CloudFormation, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck

• Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON

• Experience with AWS CLI

• Be able to assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward

• Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model

• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases

• Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage Git Flow constructs

• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.

• Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers

• System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

• BA/BS degree and 12+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.

• Expert in Linux operating system usage

• Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Rundeck

• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices

• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit

• Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo

• Experience scripting and using AWS services including Cloudformation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.

• Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)

• Experience with Nexus administration

• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

• Well versed with using version control systems

• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems

• Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a

   production environment.

• Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and

security best practices.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Elastic tools

• Experience working in the Sponsor’s cloud environments

• Experience with Nexus administration and maintenance

• Experience with Sponsor’s release management tools and processes

• AWS certification

• Container-related certification

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification, demonstrating expertise in designing, building and running applications on Kubernetes.

FIP

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Original Posting:

March 12, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

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.