Sr. DevOps Engineer

$122,200 - $220,900/Yr

Leidos - Columbia, MD

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Columbia, MD
10,001+ employees
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr. DevOps Engineer position at Leidos involves supporting a mission-critical program for the Warfighter. The role focuses on the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment, and debugging, while also building a release pipeline for efficient software delivery. The engineer will lead an Agile team, automate release deployments, and maintain configuration management systems, all while ensuring high availability and performance optimization of services.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment, and debugging.
  • Build a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production.
  • Develop & Maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies.
  • Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration, and team retrospectives.
  • Automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance, and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits.
  • Set up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible.
  • Maintain/upgrade/patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence/Jira).
  • Create, assist, and implement design and maintenance of web service infrastructure and deployments.
  • Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements.
  • Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated.
  • Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements.
  • Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored, or accessed.
  • Leverage programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java.
  • Use DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies.
  • Utilize automating network infrastructure configuration using Software Defined Networking.
  • Have a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture.
  • Understand SLA requirements and role of high availability architectures, performance optimization, and monitoring techniques.
  • Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
  • Architect and develop best practices for software build tools (Gradle, Maven, ANT, Shell) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (AWS, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).
  • Work cross-functionally across multiple teams.

Requirements

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
  • BS in either Engineering (i.e. Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science and 10+ years of relevant experience in an Agile environment.
  • 10+ years of system architecture required with a demonstrated ability to read the code and understand the coding logic to assist in troubleshooting.
  • 10+ years' experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a PaaS environment.
  • Must be fluent with Git.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 6/7/8, RHCSN/RHCE CentOS).
  • Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency, and performance.
  • Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, Active MQ, Redis, APC, etc.).
  • Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus).
  • Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance, etc.
  • Familiarity with software development life cycle models, agile, and DevOps programming methodologies.
  • Fluent skills in object-oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, GO, Python, or Java.
  • Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments.
  • Ability to successfully work with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff.
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical skills, and technical troubleshooting skills.
  • Clarity and precision in verbal and written communications.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment preferred.
  • Proficient in Elastic, Java, Jenkins, Eclipse, VMWare, Automated test tools, Cameo.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Health and Wellness programs
  • Life Protection
  • Paid Leave
  • Retirement
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