Principal DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers. They are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to design and build CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure, and support mission-critical applications in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical infrastructure
• Manage private and public cloud infrastructures via code, designing reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly-available, secure architectures for cloud-based applications
• Enable the continuous integration and continuous delivery of our diverse suite of software products by applying best practices for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and automated software deployments
• Continually evaluate and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams
• Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for the team
• Makes process and program recommendations to the project or program
• Own entire projects or processes within a technical area
• Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 12+ years of experience in a relevant field. Additional Experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices
• Fundamental background with software design patterns and programming languages
• Excellent problem solving and analysis skills
• Self-starter that is able to work independently while possessing the communication skills to work effectively with software development teams and customers
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to own entire projects or processes within a technical area
• Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff
• Ability to obtain U.S. DoD Secret security clearance
• Ability to support program execution in classified environments
• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS)
• Experience provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Experience with automation tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux CD, Fleet or similar
• Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar