As a DevOps Engineer you will contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of a full stack containerized microservices architecture as well as technical systems administration, installation, and configuration. You will participate in fostering a DevOps culture, building strong cross functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of developers, other software integrators and system administrators on the following key tasks:

• To deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline using a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch backend, and Kafka messaging

• Enhance and maintain CI/CD and DevOps scripts and processes including AI-integrated solutions for failure analysis, security and compliance to facilitate faster development, quicker error detection and resilient deployments

• Design, develop, and support scalable, redundant infrastructure to include physical and virtualized environments

• Configure Kubernetes (Helm, YAML, etc.) continuous deployments using ArgoCD.

• Collaborate with System Engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements

• Provide technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and Architect team

• Participate in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings

• Develop PaaS solutions for hybrid deployments and secure multi-tenant GPU sharing solutions in a the Kubernetes environments.

You bring enthusiasm, the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience, and meet the following qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Masters degree.

• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance

• Possess at least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification, e.g., CCNA Security, CySA+, Security+ CE, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate)

• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification per DoD 8570 policy

• Experienced with container/container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes and troubleshooting experience with:

• Ingress/Gateway API

• Multi-tenant GPU sharing

• Helm chart design/build

• Pod disruption budgets

• Affinity/anti-affinity rules

• Familiarity with external-secrets, ArgoCD, cert-manager, eck (elastic search)

GitLab pipeline development experience including:

• Integration of GitLab CI/CD components

• Integration of GitLab Code Quality reports

• Integration of GitLab Code Coverage/Test reports

Knowledgeable in navigating Linux OS, specifically:

• Knowledgeable about sysctls for K8s environments

• FApolicyd and SELinux experience

• Comfortable with Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana

• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

You will wow us even more if you have some of these:

• Experience with systems at scale

• Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques

• Experience with development, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.

• Experience on a production/ enterprise system

Experience with any of the following technologies:

• Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)

• Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Grafana, Open Telemetry

• SALT for deployment automation

• Nexus

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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.