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This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.\nPosition Summary:\nThis person should be a seasoned, self-motivated, professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-prem environments. A skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure such as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines, automating and orchestrating operations, scaling releases, and day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-prem environments.\nKey Responsibilities:\nProvide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer.\nSRE Engineering and Integration:\nAutomate routine tasks and software updates, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedure\nDocument and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilities\nDevelop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing, in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networks\nRelease Management:\nParticipate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policies\nEstablish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule\nConduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies\nTraining & Knowledge Transfer\nDevelop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processes\nProvide training when substantive technological changes are introduced\nRequired Qualifications:\nBS degree and 2 - 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience. 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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 13, 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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