Senior DevOps Engineer
Minimum Requirements:
- US Citizenship with TS/SCI and Counter-Intelligence Polygraph clearance
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
- Expertise with Docker and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm)
- Strong proficiency in Linux system administration
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and visualization technologies (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack)
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and production deployments
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and system architecture concepts
- Experience supporting high-availability and scalable environments
- Experience working within an Agile Scrum development team
- Ability to lead technical initiatives with minimal supervision
- Intelligent, proactive, and driven to achieve results
Specific Duties:
- Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure environments
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Lead container orchestration and infrastructure modernization efforts
- Troubleshoot complex production, networking, and deployment issues
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability best practices
- Drive infrastructure reliability, scalability, and security improvements
- Support vulnerability remediation and system hardening initiatives
- Mentor junior DevOps and engineering team members
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize deployment workflows and operational readiness
- Support onboarding, operational documentation, and environment management
- Experience with networking protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTPS, TLS); comfortable diagnosing and resolving networking issues
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Original Posting:August 31, 2026
Pay Range:Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
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.
