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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Leidos, Inc.
- **Location:** Columbia, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,900.0 - $195,050.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** DevOps, Distributed Systems, Network Troubleshooting, Linux System Administration, Network Protocols, Scrum Methodology, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Deployment, Systems Architecture, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Software Vulnerability Management, Docker Swarm, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Docker, Elk Stack
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88200747/1

## About the Role

* US Citizenship with TS/SCI and Counter-Intelligence Polygraph clearance
 * 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
 * Expertise with Docker and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm)
 * Strong proficiency in Linux system administration
 * Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD
 * Expertise with infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, Ansible)
 * Experience with monitoring, observability, and visualization technologies (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack)
 * Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and production deployments
 * Strong understanding of networking, security, and system architecture concepts
 * Experience supporting high-availability and scalable environments
 * Experience working within an Agile Scrum development team
 * Ability to lead technical initiatives with minimal supervision
 * Intelligent, proactive, and driven to achieve results

## Description

* Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure environments
 * Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
 * Lead container orchestration and infrastructure modernization efforts
 * Troubleshoot complex production, networking, and deployment issues
 * Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability best practices
 * Drive infrastructure reliability, scalability, and security improvements
 * Support vulnerability remediation and system hardening initiatives
 * Mentor junior DevOps and engineering team members
 * Collaborate with development teams to optimize deployment workflows and operational readiness
 * Support onboarding, operational documentation, and environment management

 * Experience with networking protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTPS, TLS); comfortable diagnosing and resolving networking issues

If 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.
Original Posting:August 31, 2026


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