Systems Engineer – Chantilly, VA

Referral bonus:

  • Even if you do not work for Talos Consulting, we will pay you $10,000 for any referral we hire!

Clearance requirement:

  • Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Salary:

  • $160,000-$245,000/year

Job Description

Leidos is looking for a DevOps Engineer on a 200+ FTE technical development program responsible for delivering modern Identity Access Credential Management (ICAM) solutions. As a DevOps Engineer 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
  • Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug automation solutions for development, test and production environments.
  • Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for implementation.
  • Makes process, program and automation recommendations to the project or program.
  • Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services
  • Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases
  • Analyze (through proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs
  • Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting
  • Document and perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments
  • Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
  • Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities and document procedures
  • Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures
  • Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Required Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
  • Candidate must have BS degree and 11-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 8-10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. Will consider work experience in lieu of degree.
  • Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices and continuous integration / continuous development
  • Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as J-Meter
  • Experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Azure)
  • Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: AWS S3, OpenSearch, EFS, etc.)
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Well versed with using version control systems such as git
  • Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems
  • Proficient with common Agile practices and environment, service-orientated environments, and development practices
  • Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
  • Interested and eager to learn

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in programming with Java, JavaScript
  • Experience with puppet, shell scripting, NESTJS, Swagger, NodeJS, ElasticSearch
  • UX best practices and Human Centered Design.
  • Experience in AWS Data management services
  • Experience with the authentication, identity and access management
  • AWS DevOps and/or SysOps certifications
  • Hands on database experience with MySQL, RDS and Oracle
  • Experience with containerization