4 days ago
Base Salary
$131k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of mission applications and shared platform services.
- Administer and support production Kubernetes environments, including lifecycle management, upgrades, configuration, tenancy, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and availability.
- Operate shared services such as Elastic and Redis, including scaling, monitoring, high availability, backup and recovery, and incident response.
- Own and prioritize the team backlog, decompose requirements into user stories, and drive execution against sprint and Program Increment commitments.
- Guide technical design decisions while balancing security, defects, sustainment, technical debt, risks, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
- Implement platform security, hardening, observability, infrastructure automation, configuration management, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
- Collaborate with government stakeholders, systems engineers, release train leadership, program management, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Lead or support Agile and SAFe activities, technical discussions, design reviews, planning, documentation, and stakeholder communications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, or a related field with 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain or maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
- Strong hands-on production experience administering Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, namespaces, quotas, RBAC, capacity planning, networking, scheduling, performance, and availability troubleshooting.
- Production experience operating Elastic and Redis shared platform services, including version management, scaling, monitoring, high availability, backup and recovery, and incident response.
- Experience with platform security and hardening, vulnerability remediation, secure configuration baselines, encryption, audit logging, least-privilege access, and secrets management.
- Experience with observability practices including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, SLIs, capacity monitoring, and root-cause analysis.
- Strong knowledge of Linux-based application hosting, containers, container images, networking, DNS, TLS/certificates, and storage concepts.
- Experience with infrastructure and platform automation or configuration management tools such as CloudFormation, Helm, Salt, and Ansible.
- Experience as a DevOps, Platform, Shared Services Technical Lead, Lead Systems Engineer, or in a similar role, preferably in an Agile or SAFe program.
- Preferred experience includes AI algorithmically driven processing systems, cloud infrastructure, Appian or other low-code technologies, PostgreSQL, GitLab, Jenkins, Keycloak, Java, Python, .NET, and Microsoft SQL Server or other relational databases.
Benefits
- The position is primarily performed on-site at the customer location in Bethesda, Maryland, with a flexible schedule and occasional remote-work opportunities.
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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.