2 days ago
Columbus, OH, USA or Chantilly, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$87k - $157k/yr
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, validate, and support the platform across on-premises, air-gapped, classified, SaaS, and cloud environments.
- Design, deploy, and maintain Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure, including reproducible infrastructure-as-code configurations and deployment workflows.
- Build monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, disaster-recovery, and restore processes to improve resilience and maintainability.
- Diagnose failures across Linux, networking, storage, containers, and distributed systems, including capacity and performance issues.
- Automate operational tasks, reduce configuration drift, and harden deployed systems.
- Document deployments and runbooks, establish operational and upgrade practices, and train customer and internal teams.
- Partner with platform engineering and Cyber Agent development teams and provide field feedback to improve the product.
- Learn the platform's scan lifecycle and Temporal/Kubernetes execution plane during the first 90 days.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in deployment engineering, systems/platform engineering, DevOps, or production infrastructure with hands-on responsibility for running systems.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating multi-node containerized workloads with Kubernetes and Docker, including MicroK8s, K3s, or equivalent.
- Proficiency administering Linux systems and troubleshooting networking, storage, and containers.
- Experience deploying or supporting workloads that call internal or external LLM endpoints, including reasoning about rate limits, provider failures, and model serving.
- Experience building and testing backup and recovery, monitoring, logging, alerting, and automation that reduce configuration drift.
- Comfort operating long-running, highly parallel, retried, and non-deterministic jobs with partial completion and checkpointing.
- Strong documentation and training skills, plus scripting or programming ability such as Python.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
- Preferred qualifications include Proxmox or virtualization experience, Temporal, Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis, NixOS, Nix flakes, SLI/SLO and error-budget experience, CPU/GPU scheduling, workload isolation, classified or air-gapped deployments, NIST RMF, DevSecOps security tooling, active clearance, and relevant certifications.
Benefits
- The listed base pay range is $87,100.00 to $157,450.00 per year.
- The role works across customer on-premises, air-gapped/classified, SaaS, and cloud-hosted environments; no specific remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.
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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.