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DevOps Engineer Expert

Leidos Chantilly, VA senior full-time

Salary

$131,300 - $237,350 per year

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Description

Leidos is seeking a DevOps Engineer Expert for a 200+ FTE technical development program focused on delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities.

The salary range for this position is $131,300.00 - $237,350.00.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement.
  • Solve higher-level and larger-scope technical problems.
  • Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test, and production environments.
  • Break down high-level requirements into smaller tasks for implementation.
  • Make process, program, and automation recommendations to the project or program.
  • Develop, prototype, and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services.
  • Coordinate with team members, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases.
  • Analyze infrastructure needs driven by developed software through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing.
  • Use industry-leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting.
  • Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments.
  • Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
  • Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures.
  • Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures.
  • Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Required Skills

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
  • BS degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience.
  • Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration/continuous development.
  • Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter.
  • Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure).
  • Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (e.g., AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS).
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
  • Well-versed with using version control systems such as git.
  • Well-versed with using issue/problem tracking systems.
  • Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-oriented environments, and development practices.
  • Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
  • Interested and eager to learn.

Desired Skills

  • Experience in programming with Java, JavaScript.
  • Experience with puppet, shell scripting, NESTJS, Swagger, NodeJS, ElasticSearch.
  • UX best practices and Human-Centered Design.
  • Experience in AWS Data management services.
  • Experience with authentication, identity, and access management.
  • AWS DevOps and/or SysOps certifications.
  • Hands-on database experience with MySQL, RDS, and Oracle.
  • Experience with containerization.

Skills

Required

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
  • BS degree
  • 12+ years of prior relevant experience
  • Expert in software development lifecycle
  • Experience with DevOps toolsets/practices
  • Continuous integration/continuous development
  • Software testing performance tools
  • Commercial Cloud Platforms
  • Cloud data services
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Version control systems
  • Issue/problem tracking systems
  • Agile practices
  • Service-oriented environments

Nice to have

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