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# DevOps SME

- **Company:** Leidos, Inc.
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Confluence, JIRA, Automation of Tests, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Github, Issue Tracking Systems, Junit, Cisco Nexus Switches, Systems Development Life Cycle, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Toolchain, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Kubernetes, Rundeck, Software Version Control, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/devops-sme-chantilly-va-usa-58830979

## About the Role

_ Rundeck, Nexus) and testing tools * maintain security best practices and container registries Tasks * Active TS/SCI with Polygraph * Master's degree and 15+ years of relevant experience * Expert in Linux * Expert in Jenkins, GitHub, Rundeck * Experience with SDLC and DevOps toolchains * Experience with JUnit * Agile development experience * Proficiency with AWS services (CloudFormation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC) * Experience with Docker, EKS, ECS * Nexus administration * CI/CD pipeline experience * Excellent written and verbal communication * Version control proficiency * Issue tracking experience (JIRA, Confluence) * Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) * Security basics in containerized environments Key requirements *

## Description

Experteer Overview As Lead DevOps Engineer on a large ICAM program, you drive cloud-enabled DevOps delivery for mission-critical identity and credential management systems. You will guide architecture, scoping, design, and implementation across the software development lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role includes on-call support to ensure 24/7/365 service availability and leadership in CI/CD and containerized deployments at scale. This is an opportunity to shape secure, modern DevOps practices within a high-stakes program. Compensation / Benefits * Lead major DevOps deliverables across the SDLC * design and estimate scope for cloud-based ICAM solutions * build and operate CI/CD pipelines and automation * manage containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud services (AWS) * participate in on-call rotation to ensure continuous operation * coordinate with agile teams and use Jira/Confluence for tracking * utilize DevOps toolchain (Jenkins, GitHub, Rundeck, Nexus) and testing tools * maintain security best practices and container registries Tasks * Active TS/SCI with Polygraph * Master's degree and 15+ years of relevant experience * Expert in Linux * Expert in Jenkins, GitHub, Rundeck * Experience with SDLC and DevOps toolchains * Experience with JUnit * Agile development experience * Proficiency with AWS services (CloudFormation, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC) * Experience with Docker, EKS, ECS * Nexus administration * CI/CD pipeline experience * Excellent written and verbal communication * Version control proficiency * Issue tracking experience (JIRA, Confluence) * Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) * Security basics in containerized environments Key requirements *


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