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Principal DevOps Engineer

AI summary of the role

Principal DevOps Engineer providing mission-critical system support to an intelligence customer.

No longer in the current catalog. Last included 2026-09-09. Check the employer’s posting for availability.

What you’ll do

  • Support software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.
  • Manage, build, configure, administer, operate, and maintain all components of the DevOps environment.
  • Define enterprise CI/CD processes and best practices, and codify DevOps best practices across the enterprise.
  • Develop and maintain scripts to automate tool deployment to an AWS cloud environment and other tasks.

What you’ll bring

  • Active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance.
  • Bachelors degree with 12+ years of prior relevant work experience or Masters with 10+ years (additional experience in lieu of degree considered).
  • Demonstrated experience setting up one or more of: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Katalon Studio.
  • Demonstrated experience troubleshooting issues with two or more of: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Katalon Studio.

Technologies

GitHub · Jira · Confluence · Jenkins · Katalon Studio · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Ansible · Puppet

About Leidos

Builds mission-critical technology, engineering, cyber, defense, health, and infrastructure systems for U.S. government, allied, and commercial customers.

Public · 5000+ people

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area. Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security! Job Summary This Principal 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
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Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area. Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security! Job Summary This Principal 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. Primary Responsibilities: Supports software deployments, cloud infrast [... source excerpt omitted ...] n AWS cloud environment and other tasks. Scripting and maintaining build environments. Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment. Basic Qualifications 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. Bachelors degree with 12 or more years of prior relevant work experience or Masters with 10 or more years o [... source excerpt omitted ...] r 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. At Leid

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