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You will get to work with state-of-the art technology developing the most sophisticated and “game changing” trainers the US Navy deploys. You will be constantly learning new skills and be encouraged and supported to develop the career you want to achieve. The hallmark of Leidos is empowered employees doing meaningful work. Join Leidos for a career, not just a job.\nLeidos is seeking an energetic, motivated, self-starter for this technically sophisticated and challenging engineering position, developing a variety of naval training and simulation systems such as CIAT - Combined Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) and Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Trainer - YouTube .\nYou will serve as an integral part of a development team that is focused on building and maintaining state-of-the-art Simulation Systems for our US Navy customers. You will administer DevSecOps and Configuration Management (CM) practices, tools and techniques for the use by the team, to increase our ability to deliver trainers more quickly and with improved quality. You will be responsible for setting up cloud environments to be used by development teams for continuous integration and development of Navy systems in both the public cloud and on-premises in private clouds. You will work directly with the management team to help standardize these same practices across our entire development group and demonstrate the effectiveness and value of modern DevSecOps and CM to our Navy customers. Come join us as a front-line leader who can help to shape the future of our team and our incredible products!\nRemote/Telework: This position allows at least 75% remote work. Candidate must be local to the office and able to work onsite as needed to accomplish required tasks for the role.\nCore Responsibilities\nKubernetes and Containers\nDesign, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms such as AWS EKS and RKE2.\nDeploy and manage containerized applications using Docker or Podman.\nDevelop, maintain, and troubleshoot Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.\nConfigure and support Istio service mesh, Kubernetes networking, ingress, service discovery, configmaps, secrets, and workload security.\nInfrastructure Automation\nDesign, deploy, and maintain infrastructure using OpenTofu or Terraform.\nDevelop Ansible automation for system configuration, software deployment, patching, and operational tasks.\nBuild reusable infrastructure modules, automation roles, templates, and deployment patterns.\nApply infrastructure-as-code principles, including version control, peer review, testing, and controlled promotion.\nSupport infrastructure provisioning and configuration across development, test, and production environments.\nCI/CD and Software Factory Operations\nDesign, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and GitLab Runners, or Jenkins.\nIntegrate automated build, test, security, packaging, and deployment stages.\nInstall, configure, troubleshoot, and integrate GitLab, GitLab Runners, Jenkins, Keycloak, Red Hat Identity Management or LDAP, Artifactory, Mattermost, Jira, Confluence, and SonarQube.\nEstablish secure Git workflows, including branching, merge requests, code reviews, tagging, releases, and change control.\nCreate reusable pipeline templates and shared CI/CD components.\nDevSecOps and Continuous Authorization\nIntegrate security practices into all stages of the software development lifecycle.\nImplement automated static application security testing, software composition analysis, dependency scanning, container image scanning, infrastructure-as-code scanning, secrets detection, license compliance, and software quality gates.\nSupport secure software supply chain practices, including artifact integrity, provenance, and traceability.\nSupport cATO, continuous monitoring, and automated compliance evidence collection.\nTranslate security and compliance requirements into technical controls, pipeline checks, and operational procedures.\nSupport vulnerability remediation, patch management, configuration compliance, and security assessment activities.\nLinux and Cloud Operations\nAdminister and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Rocky Linux systems.\nTroubleshoot processes, services, networking, DNS, storage, permissions, package management, logging, and system performance.\nApply system hardening and operational security practices.\nDesign, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS).\nSupport cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, monitoring, and security services.\nDevelop procedures for backup, recovery, upgrades, patching, and incident response.\nCollaboration and Technical Leadership\nCollaborate with developers, cybersecurity engineers, system administrators, cloud engineers, and technical leadership.\nLead troubleshooting for complex platform, pipeline, networking, authentication, and deployment issues.\nParticipate in architecture reviews, design sessions, code reviews, incident response, and root-cause analysis.\nEstablish reusable engineering standards and operational practices.\nMaintain technical documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.\nRequired Education\nBachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, Math or the Sciences, Network Engineering, Systems Software, Information Technology, or a related technical degree.\nRequired Experience\nYou must have U.S. Citizenship and be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government granted security clearance. Employment is contingent upon receiving an interim Secret security clearance.\nYou must have 2+ years of experience in DevSecOps, platform engineering, systems engineering, cloud engineering, software engineering, or a related field.\nYou must have professional experience with Kubernetes, Git, Istio or similar K8s service mesh, Helm charts, Ansible, OpenTofu or Terraform, and Docker or Podman.\nYou must have experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems, particularly RHEL or Rocky Linux.\nYou must have experience designing, deploying, securing, or operating infrastructure in AWS.\nYou must have experience administering, integrating, or troubleshooting multiple software factory applications listed in this description (e.g. GitLab, Artifactory, etc.)\nPractical experience with Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), container delivery, automated security testing, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, and cATO.\nExperience writing automation using Bash, Python, etc.\nYou must be able to diagnose complex technical problems across multiple infrastructure and application layers.\nYou must be able to communicate technical concepts clearly and produce high-quality documentation.\nYou must currently hold or be able to obtain certifications for Security+, entry-level Linux such as Linux+ or LPI Linux Essentials, and entry-level AWS such as AWS Cloud Practitioner.\nDesired Experience\nCertifications for Kubernetes, Network+, or CCNA.\nOperating RKE2 Kubernetes clusters and software factories in air-gapped, disconnected, or highly restricted environments.\nMonitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.\nSecurity tools such as Falco, AWS GuardDuty and Inspector.\nUDS CLI and UDS packages.\nZarf for packaging, deploying, and managing applications in disconnected or air-gapped environments.\nZero-trust architecture, software bills of materials, artifact signing, image signing, provenance, or supply chain verification.\nDeploying, securing, or maintaining AI and large language model platforms.\nPolicy as code, automated compliance enforcement, and observability platforms.\nSupporting regulated, defense, classified, healthcare, financial, or other highly controlled environments.\nAtlassian Software Development and Collaboration products (Jira, Confluence).\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 6, 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 $69,550.00 - $125,725.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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