DevOps Engineer Expert
At a glance
Mid-level DevOps & Release role at Leidos. Chantilly · full-time · $131,300–$237,350 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and debug automation for development, testing and production, then deploy build outputs across environments
- Turn broad direction from senior engineers and program leaders into smaller implementation tasks
- Create and test cloud-based prototypes, coordinating infrastructure work around the software’s customer needs
- Work with product owners and scrum masters to align user stories with customer use cases
- Use GitHub, Jenkins, bash, JIRA and Confluence to support delivery, track work and document procedures
What you bring
- You hold a bachelor’s degree and bring at least twelve years of relevant experience, or equivalent additional experience instead of the degree
- You have an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
- You bring hands-on DevOps and software lifecycle experience, including continuous integration and delivery practices
- You have used performance-testing tools such as J-Meter and developed on commercial cloud platforms
- You can work independently on technical problems and communicate clearly in writing and conversation
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced DevOps engineer who can independently turn larger technical problems into working solutions. The position is based in Chantilly, Virginia, and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
From the employer
Leidos is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.
Primary Responsibilities
- Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
- Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
- Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
- Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
- Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
- Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
- Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs
- 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
- Requires a BS degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
- 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 (ex, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.)
- 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-orientated 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 the authentication, identity and access management
- AWS DevOps and/or SysOps certifications
- Hands on database experience with MySQL, RDS and Oracle
- Experience with containerization
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
August 19, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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