Leidos

DevOps Lead

Leidos

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: WashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $107,900 - $195,050 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Direct the design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning, and monitoring processes across cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Lead efforts to standardize and optimize platform engineering practices, adopting Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and microservices deployment models.
  • Develop and enforce SRE principles, including release management, system reliability, observability, incident management, SLAs/SLOs, and fault tolerance.
  • Integrate security throughout the SDLC, ensuring robust code review, vulnerability scanning, and threat modeling within automated pipelines.
  • Mentor and lead a multidisciplinary team, promoting an agile, collaborative, and innovative work environment.
  • Champion creation and curation of reusable infrastructure patterns, automation scripts, cloud orchestration templates, and developer self-service platforms.
  • Oversee operational readiness, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure high availability and rapid recovery from service disruptions.
  • Drive a culture of innovation by assessing and implementing advancements in DevOps, platform engineering, and SRE practices.
  • Prepare and present operational dashboards, incident reports, risk assessments, and status updates to program leadership and customers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of progressive experience in software development, DevOps, or platform engineering.
  • 3+ years of technical team leadership or management experience.
  • Demonstrated expertise in advanced DevOps practices, including CI/CD, configuration management, automation, and cloud-native operations (AWS, Azure, or similar).
  • Hands-on experience with SRE frameworks, monitoring, logging, alerting, and reliability engineering techniques.
  • Proven background in securing applications and systems, including integrating security into pipelines and coordinating with security/compliance teams.
  • Strong technical knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), and end-to-end application/platform lifecycle management.
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain required government security clearance.
Benefits
  • competitive compensation
  • Health and Wellness programs
  • Income Protection
  • Paid Leave
  • Retirement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDInfrastructure-as-CodemicroservicesSRE principlesrelease managementsystem reliabilityobservabilityincident managementvulnerability scanningcontainer orchestration
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationinnovationproblem-solvingcommunication