$107,900–$195,050 Per Year
Aerospace and Defense, Agile Programming Methodologies, Alliance/Partner Management, Atlassian JIRA, Automation, Automation Systems, Best Practices, Business Development, Business Support, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Security, Configuration Management, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, DNS (Domain Name System), DevOps, Docker, Environmental Management, Firewalls, Forecasting, Git, Infrastructure Software, Jenkins, Leadership, Legal, Linux Administration, Load Balancing, MSBuild, Machine Tool, Maintain Compliance, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows System Administration, Operational Support, Process Improvement, Project Planning, Puppet (Configuration Management), Scripting (Scripting Languages), Scrum Project Management and Software Development, Security Architecture, Security Clearance, Security Compliance, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Software Engineering, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Systems Administration/Management, Systems Engineering, Team Building, Test Tools, Time Management, Top Secret Clearance, United States Citizen, Virtualization, Windows PowerShell, Work From Home
The Defense Sector at Leidos is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support an agile development team building .Net applications primarily for on-premise environments. The role focuses on supporting existing infrastructure and helping design and build future infrastructure needs.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines, supporting deployment, rollback, artifact management, managing infrastructure, and partnering closely with software engineers in fast-paced, iterative development environments.
This position does have the ability to work remote, but the ideal candidate will be located near Newport News, VA with the ability to be on site if needed.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Promote best practices for infrastructure automation, platform reliability, deployment workflows, and environment management.
- Provide technical oversight and informed guidance on cloud platforms, container orchestration, and CI/CD implementation.
- Establish a DevOps roadmap that aligns the infrastructure capabilities with upcoming opportunities, working closely with solution architects and business development to understand requirements and ensure the infrastructure is available to support the business needs.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives that increase team efficiency, service quality, and scalability.
- Drive consistency in DevSecOps practices, tooling, standards, and operational support models across projects.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and program leadership to align DevSecOps capabilities with business and technical needs.
- Track incoming requirements, forecast resource needs, identify skill gaps, and recommend hiring or cross-training strategies.
- Support delivery teams by removing blockers, resolving escalations, and ensuring timely execution of DevOps-related work.
- Merge code during release rolls into develop, release candidate and master branches.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience or a Master's degree with 6+ years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- US Citizen with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance within 365 days.
- Experience in DevOps, platform engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles, infrastructure automation, and software delivery lifecycle practices.
- PowerShell scripting experience.
- Knowledge of Windows and Linux system administration.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and related tools for build, test, deployment, and release automation.
- Experience with Git-based source control workflows and branching strategies
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate technical constraints and opportunities into actionable plans for leadership and project teams.
- Experience with vulnerability management, compliance checks and security scanning.
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum environments using Jira, Confluence or similar collaboration tools.
Preferred Qualifications:
- US Citizen with an active TS/SCI security clearance.
- Technical background in infrastructure as code, configuration management, and platform automation.
- Familiarity with tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Bitbucket, MSBuild, Docker Swarm, Puppet or similar.
- Knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and site reliability concepts.
- Exposure to virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, certificates, firewalls and reverse proxies.
- Familiar with Active Directory.
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Original Posting:
June 2, 2026
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.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.
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Leidos Holdings Inc
SAIC is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's digital transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, IT modernization, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.
We are a team of 26,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.