District Partners LLC
• $69K — $125K *Qualifications
Responsibilities
Benefits
Primary Responsibilities:
Responsible for monitoring operational and development systems, investigating and resolving system user issues reported with these systems with regard to the integration of security architecture & engineering efforts into the information technology life-cycle in an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) cloud-based environment.
Leveraging knowledge of the deployed IaC, ensures integrated security concepts, controls, and mechanisms deployed into the design and architecture phases to produce a reliably secure product.
May also assist with the deployment of patching of systems, the engineering, implementation, integration, maintenance and improvement of systems.
Additional responsibilities include technical Agile work tracking and planning, technical design, development and integration, verification and validation.
The environment requires monitoring multiple physical and cloud-based sites, and monitoring, supporting users and administering the IaC security, configuring necessary components and software utilizing IaC utilities.
Responsibilities may also include:
Software change management.
Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks.
Operates with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems.
Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.
Works to achieve day-to-day objectives with moderate impact on the area/ project team.
Works independently on larger, moderately complex projects/assignments.
May assist other technical staff with tasks and assignments.
Addresses somewhat complex technical issues/problems using internal best practice and through collaboration with colleagues.
Develops solutions to technical problems that require depth of technical knowledge, but are typically limited in complexity.
Preferred Experience:
Infrastructure management: Set up and maintain infrastructure, including servers and cloud systems
Immutable Infrastructure & AMI Design: Expertise in designing AMIs using automated tools like HashiCorp Packer; specifically incorporating Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) installation and optimization into the image build process.
Process automation: Create and maintain automated processes for testing, deployment, and security
Automated Image Pipelines: Experience integrating image builds into a CI/CD lifecycle (e.g., GitLab CI) to ensure AMIs are patched, hardened, and updated without manual intervention.
Configuration Management (Ansible): Experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and roles to automate the configuration of secure, STIG-compliant operating systems.
Virtualization & Remote Display: Understanding of Citrix infrastructure components and the ability to troubleshoot VDA registration, session latency, and display protocol issues (ICA/HDX) on cloud-hosted instances.
Communication: Collaborate with development, operations, and other teams to ensure effective communication
Troubleshooting: Identify and fix issues in production, and monitor system performance
Product updates: Launch product updates, and create integrations to improve the user experience
Cybersecurity: Incorporate cybersecurity best practices as directed into processes
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, other related discipline, or equivalent experience; Cyber Security and IaC certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree
2-4 years of relevant experience
Ability to work collaboratively and independently to develop creative solutions
Ability to work well and productively within a small team environment both in-person and remote telework
Self Starter
Strong communication skills
US Citizenship
DOD Top Secret Clearance is required.
Technologies Desired:
Terraform
Ansible
Kubernetes
Istio
AWS: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch
Redis
Elasticsearch
Grafana
Gitlab
Preferred Qualifications:
Operating Systems: Linux
Software development tools: Eclipse, Vscode, Gitlab, Jira, Confluence
Languages/frameworks: Jira
Source control tools: Gitlab
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.
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.
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