Software Engineer

Are you ready to join Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path. Leidos has an exciting opening for you as our next TS/SCI cleared Software Engineer supporting a long-term DIA-NDOC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will work closely with Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Operations Engineering/Manager on a broad scope of activities extending across the development of systems to include middle-tier and backend engineering tasks. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. The percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables. Specifically, we are looking for a skilled Python developer to join our team to build and maintain scalable microservices that interface with Kafka for real-time messaging and Elasticsearch for data indexing and search. You'll deploy and monitor your services in a Kubernetes environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams in designing reliable, observable, and secure systems. Our client’s overall mission is to design and im [... source excerpt omitted ...] uild CI/CD pipelines for your services and deploy them in Kubernetes clusters Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and architecture planning Monitor and troubleshoot production issues with observability tools Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team Utilizes software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members in the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers To be successful in this role you need these skills (required): Bachelor’s Degree and 2 or more years of prior relevan [... source excerpt omitted ...] Strong verbal and written communication skills Experience with AGILE practices Enthusiastic with the ability to work well in a team and a self-starter who can work on their own You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills: Experience with designing and implementing software development kits Familiarity DGX (Deep GPU Xceleration) Active Security+ certification and ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification by the Government Elasticsearch certifications or other program stack related certifications Experience of a production/enterprise systems at scale Knowledge of distributed systems concepts (e.g., idempotency, eventual consistency) Fami