# TS/SCI-cleared DevOps Platform Engineer/Linux Systems Administrator

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared DevOps Platform Engineer/Linux Systems Administrator to join a high-energy team deploying and maintaining common application-runtime capabilities in support of the DIA-NDOC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP).

As a Platform Engineer, you will operate and maintain the organisation's Kubernetes-based application platform and shared runtime services, including Elastic and Redis.

Responsibilities:

- Deploy, troubleshoot, monitor, and maintain the platform for a production big-data pipeline built on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.

- Administer and maintain Linux-based applications, including installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and system hardening.

- Integrate with the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure, ensuring system availability, reliability, security, and performance.

- Design and support scalable, redundant application infrastructure across physical and virtual environments.

- Contribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models.

- Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, Systems Engineering, or related field with 4+ years of relevant experience.

- Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.

- Possess at least one DoD 8140.03-M IAT Level II or higher certification.

- Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification per DoD 8140 policy.

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and operations.

- Experience with Linux command-line administration and troubleshooting.

- Familiarity with infrastructure and platform automation tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Bash, Python, or equivalent.

- Working knowledge of platform security practices.

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools and practices.

- Ability to create and maintain clear technical documentation.

- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Nice to Have:

- Knowledge of Agile methodologies.

- Development experience (Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.).

- Familiarity with Kafka or other messaging systems, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT for deployment automation, Helm/Helmfile, CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Nexus, ArgoCD.

The role offers a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work, with a salary range of $87,100.00 - $157,450.00.

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Elastic
- Redis
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- Bash
- Agile
- DoD 8140.03-M IAT Level II

### Nice to have
- Kafka
- GPU-based Kubernetes
- SALT
- Helm/Helmfile
- CI/CD tools
- Gitlab
- Nexus
- ArgoCD

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