Senior Observability Engineer

This Department of War enterprise data and analytics program delivers mission-critical capabilities that enable leaders across the Department to make faster better-informed decisions using trusted data at scale. Leidos Digital Modernization sector is seeking an experienced Senior Observability Engineer to support the delivery enhancement and adoption of enterprise data and analytics products used across multiple DoD organizations.

In this role you will work alongside government partners engineers and other industry teammates to translate operational and strategic requirements into scalable production-ready solutions. You will contribute directly to product planning execution and continuous improvementhelping ensure capabilities are delivered efficiently aligned to mission priorities and positioned for sustained success.

This position offers the opportunity to work on a high-visibility enterprise program at the intersection of data analytics and emerging AI technologies. Ideal candidates are motivated by mission impact comfortable operating in complex stakeholder environments and interested in building deep domain expertise while delivering capabilities with real-world national security outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and implement advanced analytical approaches to monitor the performance and health of the architecture.
• Identify patterns and conduct large-scale predictive analytics to anticipate and mitigate potential issues.
• Assist in incident response conducting root cause analysis and prescribing solutions to ensure system reliability.
• Develop and maintain a Software Engineering Plan (SWP) for managing all aspects of the System software lifecycle.
• Establish and operate a SAFE Agile development process prioritizing product backlog items and scheduling them into Agile sprint cycles.
• Maintain and operate the DevSecOps factory including automated DevSecOps pipelines for software development integration testing authorization and provisioning.
• Perform software development and integration for System software including infrastructure data tools customer tools cybersecurity and user interfaces.
• Translate systems engineering and reference architecture designs into software designs considering business requirements and compliance standards.
• Plan design and implement software testing tools processes and procedures including automated test pipelines for unit regression security integration compliance performance and acceptance testing.
• Conduct configuration management operations to control identify record and report IT components versions and relationships for the System.
• Establish and maintain development test integration staging and production environments for supporting the System software lifecycle.
• Deliver and maintain all software artifacts on Government-owned repositories including source code Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Configuration as Code (CaC) and software executables.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related technical discipline and 812 years of relevant experience OR Masters degree in a related field and 610 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering systems engineering or a related field.
• Experience in at least 4 of the following:
• Advanced analytical approaches and large-scale predictive analytics.
• DevSecOps practices and automated pipelines.
• Configuration management operations and tools.
• Implementing enterprise observability solutions (e.g. Splunk Grafana Prometheus ELK/Elastic Stack Datadog or similar platforms).
• Designing logging metrics and distributed tracing architectures for cloud-native systems.
• Supporting containerized environments (e.g. Kubernetes Docker) and microservices architectures.
• Conducting root cause analysis and performance optimization in production environments.
• Proficiency in Agile software development methodologies
• Ability to design and implement software testing tools and procedures.
• Strong understanding of software development integration and testing processes.
• Strong problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• SAFe Agilist (SA) or related SAFe certification.
• Experience operating within SAFe or large-scale Agile frameworks supporting enterprise systems.
• Experience with DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and container hardening standards.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) practices.
• Knowledge of open standards systems and their application in reducing operating costs and improving network performance.
• Experience supporting observability across multi-enclave DoD cloud environments.
• Experience implementing automated anomaly detection and predictive monitoring.
• Experience defining and tracking SLOs SLAs and reliability metrics.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale data analytics or AI platforms.
• Experience integrating observability with Zero Trust monitoring and continuous compliance frameworks.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

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