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Our team of hackers, engineers, makers, and shakers have expe­rience spanning centuries of research, development, and oper­ations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next of capabilities.\nSummary:\nWe’re an innovative, forward-looking team seeking a Deployment Engineer to install, configure, and support our AI-powered, autonomous vulnerability operations platform across the environments our customers run in - including customer on-premises installations, air-gapped and classified networks, a hosted software-as-a-service offering, and Leidos cloud-hosted infrastructure.\nThis role is for a hands-on engineer who enjoys standing systems up, making them run reliably in someone else’s environment, and leaving behind clear documentation so others can operate what you deploy. You are comfortable working across Kubernetes, LLM endpoints, and Linux systems, and you are at ease with workloads that run for hours, retry, and return non-deterministic results. You’ll partner closely with platform engineering and the Cyber Agent development teams, help customers get to a healthy running state, and feed what you learn in the field back into the product. We’re a collaborative team working at the leading edge, and we’re looking for someone who wants to both learn and lead. This is not a supervisory role.\nRequired Experience:\n3+ years in deployment engineering, systems/platform engineering, DevOps, or production infrastructure, including hands-on responsibility for standing up and supporting running systems.\nHands-on experience deploying and operating containerized workloads with Kubernetes and Docker (e.g., MicroK8s, K3s, or equivalent), including multi-node clusters.\nProficiency administering Linux systems, with practical troubleshooting across networking, storage, and containers.\nExperience deploying or supporting workloads that call internal or external LLM endpoints, and comfort reasoning about rate limits, provider failures, and model serving.\nExperience building and testing backup and recovery so deployed systems can be restored reliably.\nExperience building monitoring, logging, and alerting so problems are caught before customers notice them.\nExperience automating repetitive setup and configuration tasks and reducing configuration drift.\nComfort operating long-running, highly parallel, retried, and non-deterministic jobs, including partially completed work and checkpointing.\nStrong documentation habits - able to capture system architecture and train others to operate and troubleshoot what you deploy.\nScripting/programming ability (e.g., Python) sufficient to automate deployment and glue systems together.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance. U.S. citizenship required.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nInstall, configure, and validate the platform across customer on-premises, air-gapped/classified, SaaS, and cloud environments.\nDesign, deploy, and maintain the Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure the platform runs on.\nBuild reproducible configurations and deployment workflows using infrastructure-as-code.\nStand up monitoring, logging, and alerting, and improve resilience, recoverability, and maintainability.\nDiagnose failures across Linux, networking, storage, containers, and distributed systems - and help distinguish platform failures from issues in the software being analyzed.\nAutomate operational tasks, eliminate configuration drift, and harden deployed systems.\nContribute to operational standards, deployment practices, upgrade strategies, and backup/disaster-recovery procedures.\nPerform capacity planning and identify performance bottlenecks across compute, storage, and networking.\nDocument everything you deploy and train customer and internal teams to operate it.\nLearn new skills and teach the rest of us what you know.\nYour First Ninety Days:\nLearn the scan lifecycle and how a unit of work moves through the platform.\nGet hands-on with the Temporal and Kubernetes execution plane and a full deployment end to end.\nStand up (or improve) monitoring and the observability model for a deployed environment.\nDocument a repeatable deployment runbook and contribute to the failure taxonomy.\nValidate backup and restore in a representative environment.\n\n Preferred Qualifications:\nExperience with Proxmox or other virtualization, and self-hosted compute clusters.\nFamiliarity with a durable workflow orchestration system such as Temporal, including diagnosing stuck, retried, and non-retryable executions.\nExperience operating Postgres, ClickHouse, or Redis.\nFamiliarity with NixOS, Nix flakes, and reproducible system configuration.\nExposure to defining Service Level Indicators/Objectives and error budgets.\nCPU/GPU scheduling for compute-intensive workloads, with capacity and utilization telemetry.\nWorkload isolation and ephemeral execution environments for untrusted or potentially hostile software.\nPrior experience delivering software into classified, air-gapped, or disconnected government environments.\nFamiliarity with NIST RMF accreditation activities (ATO / continuous ATO).\nFamiliarity with DevSecOps pipelines and security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA), or vulnerability-management workflows.\nActive U.S. government security clearance.\nCertifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator, a cloud architect/engineer credential, or Security+.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nOctober 20, 2026For U.S. Positions: 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.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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