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Leidos Inc lists this DevOps Engineer opportunity in bethesda, Maryland. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Description
Leidos is looking for our next TS/SCIcleared DevOps Software Engineer to join a highenergy team building and deploying a cuttingedge technology stack in support of the DIANMEC (National Media Exploitation Center) DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). Under this 10-year contract containing multiple Task Orders, we support the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization program as well as DIA-OSIC's mission to centralize and standardize Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the DoD and IC enterprise.
While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely.
What You'll Do
As a DevOps Software Engineer, you'll help design, deploy, and maintain a fullstack, containerized microservices architecture. You'll also support systems administration, installation, configuration, and the broader adoption of DevOps best practices across crossfunctional engineering teams. In this fastpaced environment, you'll collaborate closely with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams.
You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of developers, other software integrators and system administrators to:
Deploy, triage and maintain a production big data pipeline built on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka
Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation to accelerate development and improve reliability
Design and support scalable, redundant infrastructure across physical and virtual environments
Use Helm to configure Kubernetes deployments for new features and evolving requirements
Partner with Systems Engineers to architect solutions for new capabilities
Contribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models
Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities
What You Bring
You're enthusiastic, collaborative, and comfortable working with teammates across a range of technical backgrounds. You also meet the following qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6+ years with a Master's
Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph
Possess at least one DoD -M IAT Level II or higher certification, e.g., CCNA Security, CySA+, Security+ CE, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate)
Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification per DoD 8570 policy
Strong Linux proficiency, specifically knowledgeable about sysctls for K8s environments and experience with FApolicyd and SELinux
Handson experience with containers and Kubernetes (e.g., Ingress/Gateway API, Helm chart design/build, pod disruption budgets, affinity/anti-affinity rules, familiarity with external-secrets, ArgoCD, cert-manager, eck (elastic search))
Experience with GitLab pipeline development (e.g., integration of GitLab CI/CD components, code quality reports, coverage/test reports)
Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
Demonstrated success working in crossfunctional engineering environments
You will wow us even more if you have some of these:
Experience with systems at scale
Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
Experience with development, e.g., Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java
Experience supporting an enterprise or production system
Experience with any of the following technologies:Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/ Graphana
GPU-based Kubernetes
SALT for deployment automation
Nexus
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If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
September 9, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
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