# Senior DevSecOps Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Gaithersburg, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the development of the Leidos Common Automation Platform (L-CAP).

L-CAP is a mission-critical, future-ready automation platform built on a hybrid cloud data mesh architecture, enabling next-generation air traffic management capabilities.

The role operates within a SAFe/Agile framework as part of an Agile Release Train (ART) delivering iterative value across the program.

The position supports government programs and requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines enabling continuous integration, testing, and delivery for L-CAP

- Manage Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration for platform service deployments

- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform for repeatable environments

- Integrate security scanning tools (SAST, DAST, SCA) into CI/CD pipelines for shift-left security

- Manage container images, registries, and deployment artifacts across environments

- Automate operational tasks including provisioning, scaling, and configuration management

- Manage development, test, and production environments ensuring consistency and reliability

- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for platform observability

- Collaborate with development teams to improve build times, deployment frequency, and reliability

- Support incident response and troubleshooting of infrastructure and deployment issues

- Implement software supply chain security controls including SBOM generation, artifact signing, and dependency vulnerability scanning

- Manage artifact repositories and build provenance ensuring integrity of software deliverables throughout the pipeline

- Support developer platform capabilities including self-service environment provisioning, documentation, and developer experience improvements

- Embrace an AI-first engineering culture by actively adopting AI-assisted development tools, automation, and modern engineering practices that improve productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.

**Core Technical Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline with 8 or more years of experience (or Master’s degree with 6 or more years of experience) or equivalent experience in lieu of degree.

- Expert at building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions)

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes cluster management and container orchestration

- Proficiency with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools

- Strong experience with Docker and containerization technologies

- Solid Linux systems administration skills

- Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash, Python) for automation

- Experience with security scanning tools and DevSecOps practices

- Understanding of networking, load balancing, and service mesh concepts

- Familiarity with Agile/SAFe delivery and DevOps culture

- Experience with software supply chain security tools (Sigstore, SLSA, SBOM generation)

- Knowledge of artifact management systems and build provenance tracking

- Experience supporting internal developer platforms and developer experience initiatives

- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

- U.S. citizenship required

- Successful completion of background investigations as required by the government customer

**Benefits:**

- Salary range: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

**Preferred / Desired Qualifications:**

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) including GovCloud environments

- Knowledge of FedRAMP or government compliance requirements

- Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)

- Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)

- Experience with GitOps workflows and tools (ArgoCD, Flux)

- Knowledge of secrets management and PKI (Vault, cert-manager)

- Experience in aviation, defense, or government program environments

- Experience with developer portal implementation (Backstage or equivalent) and platform documentation

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## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD pipelines
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Docker
- Linux systems administration
- Scripting languages
- Security scanning tools
- DevSecOps practices
- Networking
- Load balancing
- Service mesh concepts
- Agile/SAFe delivery
- DevOps culture
- Software supply chain security tools
- Artifact management systems
- Build provenance tracking

### Nice to have
- Cloud platforms
- FedRAMP
- Monitoring tools
- Service mesh technologies
- GitOps workflows
- Secrets management
- PKI
- Aviation
- Defense
- Government program environments
- Developer portal implementation

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