SecDevOps Lead - Security, Development, and Operations

$122,200 - $220,900/Yr

Leidos - Springfield, VA

Full-time - Senior

Springfield, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Leidos National Security Sector is seeking an experienced SecDevOps Lead to take on a pivotal role in leading a diverse team of professionals, including web developers, application developers, engineers, designers, system administrators, information security officers, and help desk specialists. This team will be responsible for ensuring the continuous operation, maintenance, and security of the customer's intelligence discovery website and application suite across multiple networks and domains. The SecDevOps Lead will focus on enhancing and maintaining the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, automating infrastructure management, performing database administration, and developing scripts for automation. This role is critical to maintaining the operational capabilities of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise and requires a hands-on approach to information security, software development, and tiered IT support. The position is contingent upon contract award and demands strong leadership skills to guide the team in maintaining government authority to operate (ATO) for integrated platforms that are essential to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the warfighter.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of web developers, application developers, designers, system administrators, information security officers, and help desk specialists conducting operations and maintenance (O&M) to ensure availability, reliability, and security as the systems expand to a larger customer base.
• Ensure that all applications remain operational on all applicable networks with all updates and enhancements required to maintain functionality.
• Enhance the efficiency, capability, and interoperability of all applications through requirements management, database programming and administration, web programming, web server customization and administration, application testing, and web design.
• Provide full operational and user support to maintain availability (99.9%) and reliability of all applications.
• Limit planned outages to occur during non-peak hours unless otherwise defined by the government.
• Enhance, improve, and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes to facilitate faster development and error detection and resilient deployments.
• Use back-end technologies such as Oracle, Postgres, Mongo Database, Redis, ElasticSearch, Solr, SQL, Node.js with Typescript, and Server-Side Languages (Java, etc.) to develop a secure, efficient, and reliable architecture.
• Implement and maintain security measures in line with government regulations, including data protection and cybersecurity frameworks.
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions, and other meetings.
• Collaborate with government leads and stakeholders, as well as other contract technical leads, to define project requirements, goals, and timelines.
• Ensure system compatibility with all integrated dissemination applications.
• Monitor project progress, address any technical challenges, adjust priorities as needed to meet milestones, and provide regular updates to government and contract program managers.
• Perform software code maintenance for all applications and systems, on development and production servers, to ensure that the capability meets all security requirements for the applicable domains.
• Develop and maintain a conceptual data model to accommodate multiple intelligence domains and arrange for data transfer between the domains.
• Manage and update all authority to operate (ATO) documentation and processes in accordance with customer policies and guidance.
• Provide Tier 1, 2, and 3 help desk support on a schedule that meets the demands of an enterprise-wide user base, including multiple shifts to cover operations up to 24 hours per day.

Requirements

• Must have an active TS/SCI security clearance with an ability to obtain a Polygraph.
• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 10 plus years in software development, technology management, system engineering or related field. Eight plus years of experience with a master's degree.
• Experience with both front-end technologies/frameworks (e.g., Angular, React) and backend implementation.
• Experience with database maintenance (e.g., SQL, NoSQL), and familiarity with search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr).
• Experience overseeing operational environment and presenting overview briefings and updates to government leads, partners, and customers; reporting on progress at performance improvement meetings; and identifying opportunities for increased effectiveness, efficiency, scale, and impact.
• Experience in the identification and mitigation of any issues or trends that pose a risk to project priorities.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience leading O&M on critical classified systems.
• Experience managing a technical team through a government ATO process.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development
• Tuition reimbursement