Agile Development Team Member

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 nation's most sensitive and critical missions.

What to Expect:

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins (CloudBees), Artifactory, Kubernetes (OpenShift), Docker, Ansible, and Bitbucket
• Assist with 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 with 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, plus 8–12 years of prior relevant experience, or Master’s with 6–10 years of prior relevant experience
• 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
• 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)