
Senior Observability Engineer
Leidos
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Alexandria • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $107,900 - $195,050 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and implement advanced analytical approaches to monitor the performance and health of the architecture.
- Identify patterns and conduct large-scale predictive analytics to anticipate and mitigate potential issues.
- Assist in incident response, conducting root cause analysis, and prescribing solutions to ensure system reliability.
- Develop and maintain a Software Engineering Plan (SWP) for managing all aspects of the System software lifecycle.
- Establish and operate a SAFE Agile development process, prioritizing product backlog items and scheduling them into Agile sprint cycles.
- Maintain and operate the DevSecOps factory, including automated DevSecOps pipelines for software development, integration, testing, authorization, and provisioning.
- Perform software development and integration for System software, including infrastructure, data tools, customer tools, cybersecurity, and user interfaces.
- Translate systems engineering and reference architecture designs into software designs, considering business requirements and compliance standards.
- Plan, design, and implement software testing tools, processes, and procedures, including automated test pipelines for unit, regression, security, integration, compliance, performance, and acceptance testing.
- Conduct configuration management operations to control, identify, record, and report IT components, versions, and relationships for the System.
- Establish and maintain development, test, integration, staging, and production environments for supporting the System software lifecycle.
- Deliver and maintain all software artifacts on Government-owned repositories, including source code, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), and software executables.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline and 8–12 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree in a related field and 6–10 years of relevant experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in at least 4 of the following: Advanced analytical approaches and large-scale predictive analytics.
- DevSecOps practices and automated pipelines.
- Configuration management operations and tools.
- Implementing enterprise observability solutions (e.g., Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/Elastic Stack, Datadog, or similar platforms).
- Designing logging, metrics, and distributed tracing architectures for cloud-native systems.
- Supporting containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and microservices architectures.
- Conducting root cause analysis and performance optimization in production environments.
- Proficiency in Agile software development methodologies.
- Ability to design and implement software testing tools and procedures.
- Strong understanding of software development, integration, and testing processes.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- competitive compensation
- Health and Wellness programs
- Income Protection
- Paid Leave
- Retirement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringsystems engineeringpredictive analyticsDevSecOpsconfiguration managementsoftware testingInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Configuration as Code (CaC)cloud-native systemsperformance optimization
Soft Skills
problem-solvingroot cause analysisAgile methodologiesincident responsecommunication
Certifications
Top Secret (TS) clearanceSCI eligibility