Principal DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

Leidos

Site Reliability Engineer designing and building CI/CD pipelines for secure software delivery. Joining dynamic teams to support cutting-edge mission platforms in a collaborative environment.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $131,300 - $237,350 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical infrastructure
Manage private and public cloud infrastructures via code, designing reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly-available, secure architectures for cloud-based applications
Enable the continuous integration and continuous delivery of our diverse suite of software products by applying best practices for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and automated software deployments
Continually evaluate and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams
Ability to take high level requirements from senior engineers and program management and break the work down into smaller tasks for the team
Makes process and program recommendations to the project or program
Own entire projects or processes within a technical area
Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level technical staff

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 12+ years of experience in a relevant field
Experience with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices
Fundamental background with software design patterns and programming languages
Excellent problem solving and analysis skills
Self-starter that is able to work independently while possessing the communication skills to work effectively with software development teams and customers
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Ability to obtain U.S. DoD Secret security clearance
Ability to support program execution in classified environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health and Wellness programs
Income Protection
Paid Leave
Retirement

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructure managementinfrastructure as codecontinuous integrationcontinuous deliverysoftware design patternsprogramming languagesautomated software deploymentstroubleshootingdebuggingscalable architectures

Soft Skills

problem solvinganalysiscommunicationinterpersonal skillsself-starterteam collaborationcoachingprocess improvementprogram managementtask breakdown

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceU.S. DoD Secret security clearance