DevOps Engineer - Remote Work

About the Company

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with digital and mission-focused innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the company has approximately 47,000 employees worldwide and reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026.

About the Role

Leidos' Digital Sector is establishing a new Agile development team focused on federal IT modernization. This role offers the opportunity to help architect, build, and integrate infrastructure solutions supporting sensitive and critical government missions.

The development platform includes ServiceNow, Elastic, Kafka, AWS, and Red Hat. Partial telework will be available during the initial development phases. As the program progresses, full-time on-site presence at a secure facility in Washington, DC, will be required.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop automated CI/CD build and deployment pipelines using Jenkins (CloudBees), Artifactory, Kubernetes (OpenShift), Docker, Ansible, and Bitbucket.
• Assist with deploying, configuring, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and updating or upgrading 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 to meet DoD security standards, including 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 spending.
• Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and automation using metrics, logs, and traces to improve incident detection, operational visibility, root cause analysis, and system reliability.
• Optimize cloud and infrastructure costs through resource utilization analysis, rightsizing, idle resource identification, storage and compute optimization, and FinOps practices.
• Manage enterprise certificate lifecycle operations, including provisioning, renewal, rotation, expiration monitoring, and automation.
• 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.
• Participate in Agile team activities, including daily scrums and working software demonstrations, while collaborating with a geographically distributed team.
• Communicate and collaborate with team members and stakeholders to support successful project delivery.
• Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, JUnit, or other applicable tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure, and system issues.
• Independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline with 8–12 years of prior relevant experience, or a master's degree with 6–10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Willingness to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment.
• Current Security+ certification or a higher/equivalent certification.
• Experience developing software in an Agile environment and the ability to learn new technologies quickly on a growing project.
• Ability to multitask, self-assign work, and collaborate with 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 software engineering principles, theories, and concepts.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to collaborate effectively with a virtual team, clearly communicate project status, and present to customers and program leadership.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, attention to detail, and strong organizational and documentation abilities.
• Ability to obtain an interim DoD Secret security clearance before the start date.
• Ability to obtain a security certification meeting DoD 8570 IAT Level II or higher, such as Security+ CE or CISSP, within 60 days of the start date.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience across the full software lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and production releases.
• Experience developing software in an Agile environment and learning new technologies on a growing project.
• Software development experience with Python, Java, and SQL, including integration with JSON/REST web services and parsing, generating, and validating JSON.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying software in a cloud environment; AWS experience is a plus.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying DevOps pipelines using Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Ansible or equivalent tools.
• Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in containerized environments using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Working knowledge of Git and development workflows in GitHub, Bitbucket, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience working remotely with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience working as part of an Agile software development team.
• Formal Agile methodology certification, such as SCRUM, is a plus.
• Software analysis and design experience, including researching, analyzing, selecting, and designing API integrations and developing extensions or plugins for existing tools and components.
• Experience creating software design documentation, including functional, technical, and architectural designs, 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.
• Experience building and deploying applications that meet DoD security standards, including updating applications and code to address security scans and comply with implementation guidelines such as STIGs.

Security Requirements

• An active TS/SCI clearance is required for consideration.
• Candidates must be willing to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment.
• An interim DoD Secret security clearance must be obtained before the start date.
• A certification meeting DoD 8570 IAT Level II or higher, such as Security+ CE or CISSP, must be obtained within 60 days of the start date.

Work Location and Arrangement

Washington, DC

Partial telework is available during the initial development phases. Full-time on-site presence at a secure facility in Washington, DC, will be required as the program matures.

Salary Range

$107,900–$195,050

The stated pay range is a general guideline and does not guarantee compensation. Offers may consider job responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, market data, applicable bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.

Benefits

Leidos offers employment benefits that include compensation, health and wellness programs, income protection, paid leave, and retirement benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Leidos provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants 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. The company also considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable laws.