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 Lead 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. This role requires supporting an on-call rotation to ensure mission critical services remain operational 24/7/365. Rotation is typically to be on-call 1 full calendar week every 2 months.

Primary Responsibilities *     Create and publish standard operating procedures for developers, database administrators, and customer support personnel. *     Perform full lifecycle management of CI/CD pipelines, including modifications to pipeline stages, dependency management, etc *     Act on PO&AMs and CVEs reported by the ISSE by patching dependencies in the SBOM *     Provide technical guidance, training, and leadership for current / new operations and engineering personnel. *     Harden operating systems with STIG or other ISSM guidance *     Automate currently manual deployment procedures on legacy systems *     Provide Tier III & IV technical support and leadership in a complex mission environment

Required Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
  • BA/BS Degree with 11-15 years of relevant experience
  • Expert in Linux operating system usage
  • Expert in using DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform
  • 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 Nexus administration
  • Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Well versed with using version control systems such as Git
  • Experience with JIRA, Confluence and Agile development methods

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Ansible
  • 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
  • Experience working in the Sponsor’s cloud environments
  • Experience with Nexus administration and maintenance