Senior DevOps Engineer
At a glance
Senior DevOps & Release role at Leidos. Chantilly · full-time · $107,900–$195,050 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and run infrastructure that can scale, then improve its reliability, capacity and security
- Shape CI/CD workflows and automate deployments; lead container orchestration and infrastructure updates
- Diagnose production, network and deployment failures, including issues across distributed systems
- Put monitoring, alerting and observability practices in place, and help remediate vulnerabilities and harden systems
- Work with developers on smoother releases and operational readiness, while documenting environments and mentoring junior staff
What you bring
- At least five years in DevOps, infrastructure engineering or site reliability work
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering or a related discipline
- U.S. citizenship and active TS/SCI clearance with a counterintelligence polygraph
- Hands-on expertise with Docker and container orchestration, plus strong Linux administration skills
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible, and monitoring platforms such as Grafana or Prometheus
Who this fits
This is a senior technical role for someone who can lead infrastructure work with limited oversight and support junior engineers. It is based in Chantilly, Virginia, and requires U.S. citizenship plus TS/SCI clearance with a counterintelligence polygraph.
From the employer
Senior DevOps Engineer
Who We Are:
Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities.
Minimum Requirements:
- US Citizenship with TS/SCI and Counter-Intelligence Polygraph clearance
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
- Expertise with Docker and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm)
- Strong proficiency in Linux system administration
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and visualization technologies (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack)
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and production deployments
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and system architecture concepts
- Experience supporting high-availability and scalable environments
- Experience working within an Agile Scrum development team
- Ability to lead technical initiatives with minimal supervision
- Intelligent, proactive, and driven to achieve results
Specific Duties:
- Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure environments
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Lead container orchestration and infrastructure modernization efforts
- Troubleshoot complex production, networking, and deployment issues
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability best practices
- Drive infrastructure reliability, scalability, and security improvements
- Support vulnerability remediation and system hardening initiatives
- Mentor junior DevOps and engineering team members
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize deployment workflows and operational readiness
- Support onboarding, operational documentation, and environment management
- Experience with networking protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTPS, TLS); comfortable diagnosing and resolving networking issues
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:
June 2, 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 $107,900.00 - $195,050.00The 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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