About the position
Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a DevOps Software Engineer in our National Security Sector's (NSS) Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA). Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security! DevOps Software Engineer DevOps is an agile development practice and mindset that uses agile principles (collaboration, communication, utilizing the right tools) to streamline software building, testing, and release. Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is a DevOps methodology for streamlining software development and deployment, focusing on automating processes and enabling faster, more reliable releases. The selected individual will support DevOps activities as a member of an agile development team for a large complex enterprise system. The position requires a dedicated software engineer who will work on a variety of DevOps tasking. She/he must have a willingness to learn and use new technologies and methodologies, with a focus on automating processes and ensuring efficient software delivery. She/he must consider the organization’s entire IT infrastructure when making changes and improvements.
Responsibilities
- Managing tools for development, deployment, and integrated testing.
- Integrating project functions and resources across the entire product life cycle.
- Identifying manual processes that can be automated.
- Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools.
- Implementing various development, testing, and automation tools, optimizing IT infrastructure.
- Ensuring that system improvements do not jeopardize system security.
- Striving for improvement, and building continuous integration, development, and deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
- Persevering when facing challenges, with a strong commitment to the goals.
- Collaborating with and assisting team members across the program as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
- Must have a solid understanding of DevOps.
- Must have at least 5 years of experience managing tools for development, deployment, and integrated test.
- Must have at least 5 years of experience working with CI/CD frameworks.
- Must have meaningful System Administration experience (mostly Windows but also Linux).
- Must have experience with several of the following: Java, Groovy, Python, PowerShell, Batch, and Bash scripting, JavaScript, AngularJS.
- Must have experience with IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) such as Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Rhapsody, WebStorm.
- Must have experience with software source control and configuration management tools.
- Must have experience working in a virtualized environment (managing VMs).
- Must have experience with container-based platforms for automated deployment of applications.
- Must be motivated, flexible and willing to learn new techniques, technologies and adhere to best practices in test automation.
- Must have a strong understanding of sound software development principles and practices.
- Must be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
- Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server.
- Experience with Web Application User Interface Development, knowledge of databases and structures, Spring Framework, and/or experience working with AngularJS, JSON, HTML, XML, XSLT.
- Experience with the Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology, SAFe Agilest Certification, or experience as a member of an Agile team.
- Must be able to plan and prioritize tasks that support the team sprint goals.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- 11 paid Holidays
- 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting
- Flexible Schedules
- Discounted Stock Purchase Plans
- Technical Upskilling
- Education and Training Support
- Parental Paid Leave
