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Description

The Digital Modernization Sector has a career opportunity for a DevOps Software Engineer supporting the Global Solutions Management – Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at DISA. This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA’s operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA’s mission partners.

While this role is primarily remote one must live within commuting distance to Scott AFB, IL or Ft. Meade, MD for on-site support.

The selected candidate will be a key member of the Special Projects Innovations team, working hands-on with a team of software engineers, and will provide technical expertise in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps and Software Configuration Management in support of the automated and rapid delivery of innovative solutions to a cloud-based environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

The successful candidate primary responsibility will:

• Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Cloudbees/Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible and Bitbucket.

• Lead software configuration management (SCM) release planning and version control, providing SCM support throughout a software product's life cycle (initial software development through promotion to Test, QA and Production Environments).

• Plan and manage parallel software development and release cycles as well as provide SCM for a large distributed development network with remote partners, ensuring the consistency and reliability of software builds.

• Provide technical direction, leadership, guidance and training on CM processes to a team of software engineers, ensuring congruence of the various infrastructure, software, configurations and interfaces maintained under configuration control

• Develop automated tests using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools.

• Design, develop, document, test and deploy software written in Python, JavaScript, Java and SQL.

• Deploy, configure, test, troubleshoot, maintain, update/upgrade of Kafka and Elastic clusters and environments.

• Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team, communicating and collaborating frequently with teammates to ensure successful completion of project objectives.

• Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure and system issues.

• Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline and 12+ years of prior relevant experience.

• Must hold an active DoD Secret clearance.

• Must Obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 14 days of start date

• Strategic mindset who can further develop and refine our advanced DevOps architecture and processes while providing master level technical leadership to the team.

• Master level DevOps experience – knowledge and ability to train, guide and mentor the team on DevOps principles, bringing new expertise to the team.

• Master level experience with and ability to develop DevOps designs, architectures, processes and procedures.

• Master level experience in software configuration management (Bitbucket, GIT), including the ability to design software configuration, branch, merge and release processes

• Significant experience designing, developing and implementing CI/CD pipelines in a containerized (Kubernetes) environment

• Significant experience designing and implementing automation capabilities in Ansible or another equivalent tool.

• Experience enforcing project DevOps processes to ensure consistency of deployments

• Experience designing, building and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).

• Experience designing and implementing application deployment pipelines and developing software in a containerized environment with Kubernetes and Docker (OpenShift experience is a plus).

• Full software lifecycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.

• Experience designing and building automated software testing pipelines using Ansible, Selenium, JMeter, Junit and/or other applicable tools.

• Previous SCM experience, including release planning, managing software baselines, merging branches, and producing software builds

• Experience designing, developing and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).

• Strong experience working on a UNIX command line platform.

• Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards and updating applications and code to meet security scans and security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs).

• Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence.

• Experience integrating code review systems into the SCM process.

• Experience with static code analysis, particularly security scans.

• Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team.

• Experience working as part of an Agile software development team.

• Ability to commute to a DISA site (Scott or Meade) as needed.

Original Posting Date:

2024-10-24

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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REQNUMBER: R-00146864

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.