3 days ago
Base Salary
$108k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the hands-on technical principal by establishing platform engineering standards, reviewing designs and code, guiding technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and coordinating cross-team dependencies.
- Design, configure, integrate, upgrade, monitor, troubleshoot, and manage the lifecycle of Red Hat OpenShift and supporting Linux, compute, networking, and storage infrastructure.
- Lead GitOps adoption, including repository structures, branching, peer review, declarative configuration, environment promotion, automated reconciliation, and rollback procedures.
- Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code and automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and routine operations.
- Provide technical direction for CI/CD pipeline design and improvement across development, test, and production environments.
- Partner with developers on container builds, deployment configurations, resource requirements, and runtime troubleshooting.
- Act as a senior escalation point for Linux, OpenShift, cloud infrastructure, and deployment-pipeline issues, leading root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Use metrics, logs, reporting, and capacity trends to identify reliability and performance risks and improve monitoring, alerting, stability, and resource utilization.
- Integrate compliance requirements, access controls, and remediation into platform designs and automation.
- Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration documentation, standard operating procedures, work instructions, and implementation and recovery procedures.
- Provide estimates, identify dependencies and risks, coordinate work through Agile planning, and communicate technical decisions and status to teams and customers.
- Participate in scheduled after-hours, weekend, and holiday on-call rotations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience; relevant experience may substitute for a degree.
- Demonstrated hands-on technical leadership involving design decisions, technical reviews, mentoring, and delivery across infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud, and DevOps.
- Production experience engineering, administering, configuring, upgrading, and troubleshooting Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and enterprise compute, networking, and storage services supporting containerized workloads.
- Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems administration, configuration, troubleshooting, and scripting experience.
- Experience implementing GitOps and delivering infrastructure-as-code and automation with version control, peer review, automated validation, and repeatable deployments.
- Proficiency in Python or an equivalent programming language for developing, testing, reviewing, and maintaining automation and operational tools.
- Experience designing, building, and managing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Tekton.
- Proficiency with container technologies such as Docker and experience troubleshooting container build, deployment, configuration, and runtime issues.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills using metrics, logs, capacity data, and performance data to diagnose issues and drive improvements.
- Ability to communicate technical decisions, collaborate across teams, prioritize work, and deliver secure, documented, supportable solutions.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance or greater.
- Ability to obtain a baseline 8140 certification, such as CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, or SSCP, within three months of hire.
- Kubernetes certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer are required or expected as listed in the posting.
- Preferred experience includes Azure-native architectures, cloud PaaS and SaaS environments, Terraform, Ansible, ROSA, EKS, AKS, DoD Secret clearance, and 8140 Level II Security+ certification.
Benefits
- Annual base pay range is $107,900.00 to $195,050.00.
- The role includes scheduled on-call rotations with after-hours, weekend, and holiday support as required.
- The position requires obtaining a baseline 8140 certification within three months of hire.
- The posting is for a U.S. position and states an anticipated requisition close date no earlier than three days after the October 27, 2026 posting date.
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About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.