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Leidos Inc lists this DevSecOps Engineer - Intelligent Platforms & Agents opportunity in reston, Virginia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Description
Position Overview
At Leidos, we are advancing mission-critical platforms that simulate, interact with, and act on complex technical and business environments. These platforms enable teams to engage with network operations, automate business processes, and gain insight through intent-driven and agent-based systems.
The team operates with a strong belief in \"everything as code,\" using version-controlled artifacts and automation to manage not only infrastructure and software, but also deployment pipelines, security controls, compliance artifacts, and operational workflows.
The DevSecOps Engineer is a hands-on practitioner responsible for building, automating, and sustaining the delivery infrastructure that enables mission-critical software to move fast without compromising compliance. You will actively build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, harden and manage Kubernetes environments, automate security compliance, and leverage AI as a force multiplier across the entire delivery lifecycle. When team capacity demands it, you will contribute directly to feature development - bringing a security-first perspective to application code.
Primary Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines that carry code from development through security scanning, compliance validation, and deployment into Navy and DoD environments
Build and maintain hardened Kubernetes environments aligned to DISA STIG requirements across cloud and restricted network deployment contexts
Automate security artifact generation including SBOM production, CVE scanning, and continuous compliance validation
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps practices, and controls-as-code across the team
Leverage AI tooling to accelerate pipeline development, vulnerability triage, compliance remediation, and operational documentation
Partner closely with software engineers, systems engineers, and ISSEs to embed security and compliance requirements from the start of development
Maintain and evolve deployment infrastructure across multiple secure environments, including cloud and air-gapped or intermittently connected contexts
Support ATO processes through automated evidence generation, documentation as code, and direct collaboration with the security team
Establish and promote standards for pipeline design, container security, secrets management, and deployment consistency
Contribute to feature development when team capacity requires, applying security-first development practices to application code
Maintain operational documentation including runbooks, deployment guides, and architecture diagrams as version-controlled artifacts
Required Skills and Experience
Must have and maintain a Secret security clearance
BS degree and 4+ years of professional DevSecOps or DevOps engineering experience, 8+ years of total relevant experience.
Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI; experience with additional pipeline tools a plus
Experience with Kubernetes administration and hardening in DoD or compliance-driven environments – RKE2 or K3S experience strongly preferred
Experience implementing DISA STIG compliance in containerized and Linux environments (RHEL or Rocky Linux)
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling, particularly Terraform
Experience with Helm chart authoring and Kubernetes deployment management
Experience with automated security scanning, SBOM generation, and CVE triage and remediation
Scripting proficiency in Python or Bash for pipeline and operational automation
Demonstrated use of AI tooling to accelerate engineering workflows
Background contributing to application feature development alongside infrastructure work
Ability to operate independently and manage workload across competing priorities in a small, fast-moving team
Preferred Qualifications
Experience operating in air-gapped or disconnected network environments
Experience supporting ATO through automation, documentation, and technical leadership
Active Security+ certification or equivalent IAT Level II certification
Experience with secrets management tooling such as Vault, Sealed Secrets, or SOPS
Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or willingness to obtain upon onboarding
Experience applying \"as code\" approaches beyond infrastructure (e.g., configuration-as-code, policy-as-code, workflows-as-code, documentation-as-code)
AppMod
SMIT
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 24, 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
Pay and Benefits
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Commitment to Non-Discrimination
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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Worksite address
reston, VA, 22090, US
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