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# DevOps Engineer (SME)

- **Company:** Leidos, Inc.
- **Location:** Bethesda, MD, United States
- **Salary:** $154,050.0 - $278,475.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), PHP (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Python (Programming Language), Unix Shell, Ansible, Ruby, Scaled Agile Framework, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Vagrant, Scripting, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Puppet, Docker, Katalon Studio, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/69ba008b-a623-4e68-9194-c725694c6e81

## About the Role

* Demonstrated experience setting up one or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
 * Demonstrated experience troubleshooting issues with two or more of the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and Katalon Studio.
 * Demonstrated experience working within a software development team and supporting developers and developer activities.
 * Masters with 15 or more years of prior relevant work experience. Will consider additional work experience in lieu of a degree.
 * To be considered must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

 * Master's degree in science, technical, or engineering discipline.
 * AWS Associate Certification (Developer, Solution Architect, or Sys Ops Administrator)
 * AWS Professional Certification (DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect)
 * Demonstrated experience in container orchestration using Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS/ECR
 * Demonstrated experience with Languages including Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and Unix shell Scripting
 * Demonstrated experience with Ansible, or Puppet.

## Description

This DevOps Engineer role provides mission critical system support to our customer. You will closely work with the Development team as well as other technology stakeholders to maintain, develop and support IC enterprise products - legacy and new products - in an Agile SAFe environment. The role will also work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate systems. Additionally, this role will help automate and streamline operations and processes; as well as build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations, and troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments., * Supports software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.

 * Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevOps environment.
 * Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices
 * Codifying DevOps best practices across the enterprise
 * Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to an AWS cloud environment and other tasks.
 * Scripting and maintaining build environments.
 * Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment.


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