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This role is part of a 10-year program supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort, where you’ll contribute to mission-critical capabilities alongside a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented team.\nWhile the majority of work is performed on-site at our customer location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work.\nAs a Platform Engineer, you’ll operate and maintain the organization’s Kubernetes-based application platform and shared runtime services, including Elastic and Redis by performing platform configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, security hardening, capacity management, version upgrades, and automation to provide reliable, secure, and scalable platform services. You’ll also support the implementation of automation, continuous integration and delivery, and DevOps best practices across cross-functional engineer teams. In this fast-paced environment, you’ll collaborate closely with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams.\nYou will work with a multidisciplinary group of developers, integrators, and system administrators to:\nDeploy, troubleshoot, monitor, and maintain the platform for a production big-data pipeline built on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Kafka .\nAdminister and maintain Linux-based applications, including installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and system hardening.\nIntegrate with the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure, ensuring system availability, reliability, security, and performance.\nDesign and support scalable, redundant application infrastructure across physical and virtual environments. \nContribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models.\nParticipate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities. \nTo be successful in this role you need the following (required qualifications):\nYou’re enthusiastic, collaborative, and comfortable working with teammates across a range of technical backgrounds. You also meet the following qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 4+ years of relevant experience; 2+ years with a Master’s \nActive TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph \nPossess at least one DoD 8140.03-M IAT Level II or higher certification, e.g., CySA+, Security+CE, etc. \nAbility to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification per DoD 8140 policy \nHands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and operations \nHelm or comparable Kubernetes package/configuration-management tools\nTroubleshooting pod failures, networking issues, image pulls, scheduling constraints, and application connectivity\nExperience with Linux command-line administration and troubleshooting, including processes, filesystems, networking, permissions, logs, certificates, and system resource analysis\nExperience supporting or administering at least one shared data or application platform service, such as Elastic, Redis, message queues, API gateways, or similar distributed services\nFamiliarity with infrastructure and platform automation tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Bash, Python, or equivalent\nWorking knowledge of platform security practices\nExperience with monitoring and observability tools and practices\nAbility to create and maintain clear technical documentation\nStrong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills\nYou will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:\nKnowledge of Agile methodologies\nDevelopment experience (Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.)\nFamiliarity with:Kafka or other messaging systems\nGPU-based Kubernetes\nSALT for deployment automation\nHelm/Helmfile\nCI/CD tools such as Gitlab, Nexus, ArgoCD\n\nLeidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 32,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.\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 16, 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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