Leidos is looking for a DevOps Engineer SME on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer SME on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems and software utilizing cloud capabilities to support a complex program. Based in DevOps framework, you will participate in and/or direct major deliverables throughout all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.
Primary Responsibilities
- Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement,
- Solving higher level and larger scope technical problems
- Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
- Individual must have a broad understanding of system development, operations and maintenance
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and system administration experience
- Coding skills to be able to automate infrastructure and deployment functions
- Have experience with DevOps pipeline and IaC-based tools/frameworks such as CloudFormation, Puppet, Jenkins, and Rundeck
- Understand advanced software development practices, and have a solid knowledge of and experience with Bash, Puppet, YAML, and JSON
- Experience with AWS CLI
- Assess and improve upon existing DevOps/CI/CD processes to move the program forward
- Support team in potentially moving into a containerized infrastructure model
- Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
- Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leverage GitFlow constructs
- Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
- Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers
- System Administration/Privileged Access duties including an on-call rotation for a week approximately every two months
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- BA/BS degree and 12+ years of experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
- Expert in Linux operating system usage
- Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Rundeck
- Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices
- Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-unit
- Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo
- Experience scripting and using AWS services including Cloudformation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.
- Experience with containerization (Docker, EKS, ECS, etc.)
- Experience with Nexus administration
- Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Well versed with using version control systems
- Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including container orchestration, deployment, and scaling in a production environment.
- Proficiency in building, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using CI/CD pipelines, along with knowledge of container registries and security best practices.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Elastic tools
- Experience working in the Sponsor's cloud environments
- Experience with Nexus administration and maintenance
- Experience with Sponsor's release management tools and processes
- AWS certification
- Container-related certification
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification, demonstrating expertise in designing, building and running applications on Kubernetes.
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