Sr. DevOps Engineer

Full-time - Senior

Columbia, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr. DevOps Engineer position at Leidos involves supporting a complex program for the Warfighter, focusing on the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment, and debugging. The role requires an active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance and emphasizes building a release pipeline for critical business software, maintaining version control systems, and serving as a technical lead for an Agile team. The engineer will also automate release deployments, manage configuration, and enhance service stack performance while ensuring effective communication between stakeholders and development teams.

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 scripting languages and automation toolkits.
• Set up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible.
• Maintain, upgrade, and 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 the 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 Engineering (Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science and 10+ years of relevant experience in an Agile environment.
• 10+ years of system architecture experience with the ability to read code and understand coding logic for troubleshooting.
• 10+ years' experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers in a PaaS environment.
• 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.
• Proficient in Elastic, Java, Jenkins, Eclipse, VMWare, Automated test tools, Cameo.