DevSecOps Engineer – Intelligent Platforms, Agents

Leidos

DevSecOps Engineer automating delivery infrastructure for mission-critical software at Leidos. Building CI/CD pipelines and maintaining security compliance in cloud environments.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $107,900 - $195,050 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health and Wellness programs
Income Protection
Paid Leave
Retirement

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CD pipelinesKubernetes administrationDISA STIG complianceInfrastructure as CodeGitOps practicesTerraformHelm chart authoringAutomated security scanningSBOM generationScripting in Python

Soft Skills

independent operationworkload managementcollaborationcommunicationadaptability

Certifications

Secret security clearanceBS degree