DevOps Engineer

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Leidos has an exciting opening for you our next DevOps Software Engineer working with a dynamic team to design develop and deploy a stateoftheart technology stack supporting DIAs Science and Technology Directorate . Under a multiTask Order 10year contract we support the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization program as well as the Open Source Intelligence Integration Center (OSIC) mission to centralize and standardize Tasking Collection Processing Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the DoD and IC enterprise. Have impact as part of a mission focused solutions oriented and adaptive team that values inclusion innovation collaboration and professional development. While most work is conducted onsite at our client location in Bethesda MD we offer a flexible schedule and occasionally some tasks may be performed remotely.

As a DevOps Engineer you will contribute to the design deployment and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration installation and configuration. You will participate in fostering a DevOps culture building strong cross functional collaboration with systems engineering architecture development security operations and integration teams in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of developers other software integrators and system administrators on the following key tasks:

• To deploy triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes Elasticsearch backend and Kafka messaging
• Enhance improve and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development quicker error detection and resilient deployments
• Design develop and support scalable redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments
• Use SaltStack ArgoCD and Helm to provision and manage virtual resources automate deployments across multiple cloudbased environments and to configure Kubernetes deployments to support new feature requirements.
• Collaborate with System Engineers to design/implement new CI/CD processes
• Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team
• Participate in Scaled Agile ceremonies (increment and sprint planning review demo retrospective) bug triage design sessions and other meetings as necessary

You bring enthusiasm the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience and meet the following qualifications:

• BS in Engineering Computer Science Systems Engineering or related field or equivalent experience with 8 years in software development system engineering or related field. 6 years of experience with Masters degree.

• Must have an active Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
• You have the ability to quickly problem solve and pick up new techniques/technologies and maintain an active interest in continuous learning and selfimprovement
• Comfortable working in Linux
• Experience using GitLab and GitHub Jenkins Nexus and Artifactory
• Experience and/or certification with AWS
• Container or container orchestration experience i.e. Docker Docker swarm Kubernetes etc.
• Development experience i.e. Bash PowerShell SALT Python Groovy Java etc.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and plan DevOps work for a team of people and/or leading a DevOps implementation

You will wow us even more if you have some of these:

• Experience with systems at scale
• Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
• Experience on a production/ enterprise system
• Experience with any of the following technologies:
  • Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP JMS)
  • Kubernetes monitoring e.g. Prometheus/ Graphana
  • GPUbased Kubernetes
  • SALT for deployment automation
  • Elasticsearch Kibana and Logstash specifically admin experience
  • Helm and Helmfile
  • Nexus
  • Artifactory

Original Posting:

For 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:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.