Leidos

Agile / DevOps Coach

Leidos

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $131,300 - $237,350 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Identify and remove constraints across the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle (idea to production).
  • Apply Lean principles to improve flow, including reducing batch sizes, limiting work in progress, and accelerating feedback loops.
  • Help teams establish a reliable path to production with small, frequent changes and fast recovery from failure.
  • Improve delivery performance across lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and time to restore service.
  • Coach teams on practical Agile and DevOps engineering practices that enable continuous delivery (CI, automated testing, trunk-based development, deployment automation, observability).
  • Reinforce engineering discipline over process compliance.
  • Facilitate working sessions such as flow reviews, value stream mapping, and retrospectives focused on systemic improvement.
  • Help teams build confidence in their ability to release software at any time.
  • Support teams in decoupling deployment from release through feature flags, progressive delivery, and rollback strategies.
  • Promote architectures and practices that reduce coupling, risk, and coordination overhead.
  • Partner with platform, security, and operations teams to embed quality, security, and reliability into the delivery pipeline.
  • Improve developer experience by reducing friction, manual steps, and hidden queues.
  • Coach leaders to shift from project-centric delivery to product and flow-oriented thinking.
  • Introduce metrics that reflect real delivery health and flow efficiency, and help leaders use them as learning tools rather than performance weapons.
  • Help evolve governance and planning practices to support fast feedback and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelors and 12+ years working with software engineering teams in Agile, Lean, or DevOps environments.
  • Proven experience improving software delivery performance, not just Agile process adoption.
  • Deep understanding of flow-based delivery, Lean systems thinking, and continuous delivery principles.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern DevOps tooling, and cloud-native delivery practices.
  • Ability to influence engineers, product leaders, and executives with credibility and empathy.
  • Background as a software engineer, platform engineer, or SRE (preferred).
  • Experience coaching teams toward high-performing delivery metrics (e.g., frequent releases, low failure rates, fast recovery) (preferred).
  • Familiarity with research on high-performing technology organizations and modern platform engineering models (preferred).
  • Experience working in complex or regulated environments (preferred).
  • Past or current Agile certifications like SAFe, ScrumMaster or similar (preferred).
Benefits
  • competitive compensation
  • Health and Wellness programs
  • Income Protection
  • Paid Leave
  • Retirement

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
AgileLeanDevOpsCI/CDautomated testingtrunk-based developmentdeployment automationfeature flagsprogressive deliveryrollback strategies
Soft skills
coachinginfluencingcredibilityempathyfacilitationsystemic improvementconfidence buildingleadershipcommunicationcollaboration
Certifications
SAFeScrumMaster