Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Description

Job Description

The Digital Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to support the Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Information & Technology (OIT). In this contract, Leidos assists with the underlying infrastructure, tools, and operational services used to build, deploy, secure, and run VA health applications.

A Senior DevSecOps Engineer provides technical leadership in the architecture, implementation, and optimization of enterprise DevSecOps automation and deployment strategies supporting mission-critical cloud environments. This role requires the ability to design and deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native solutions while fostering automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Primary Responsibilities

The selected candidate will:

• Operate and maintain centralized secrets management solutions, ensuring automated rotation of production secrets and the timely rotation of non-automated secrets.
• Maintain environment configurations exclusively through approved Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tooling and review and approve IaC changes within established turnaround times.
• Perform scheduled configuration drift detection and remediating any identified drift within required timelines.
• Manage the organization's certificate inventory and lifecycle, ensuring the timely renewal of certificates and the immediate remediation of invalid, expired, or misconfigured certificates.
• Support daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings by preparing and presenting change requests for government approval, develop documented backout and rollback plans, and perform post-implementation production verification testing for all production changes.
• Prepare production change notifications and produce weekly change summary reports that document planned and completed changes, incidents, and any deviations from established processes.

Basic Qualifications

Candidates should possess:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering; candidates without a degree must have at least 16 years of relevant experience.
• The ability to architect and lead enterprise DevSecOps automation and deployment solutions supporting mission-critical cloud environments.
• Experience implementing:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Kubernetes and EKS orchestration
  • Terraform automation
  • Container security scanning
  • Automated scaling
  • Blue/green deployments
  • Canary releases
  • Zero Trust DevSecOps architectures
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.
• The ability to travel, as needed, to customer sites.
• Must have a US Citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate will bring experience with:

• Integrating change management workflows with IT Service Management (ITSM) platforms, such as ServiceNow.
• Service mesh technologies, including Istio, in production environments, as well as configuration drift detection and automated remediation tooling.
• Facilitating or presenting changes to a CCB and supporting compliance-driven change and configuration management practices in a federal or other highly regulated environment.
• Producing recurring compliance or security posture reports, such as software version posture assessments and security exception reporting.
• Working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, or a similar government agency.

HAPS

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.

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos' name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system - never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.

If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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