Junior Cloud/SecDevOps Engineer

As the largest provider of US government IT services, Leidos develops and sustains large data and technology infrastructures and integrates complex law enforcement IT system for a number of US federal agencies.  At Leidos, we offer engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals and growth.  This role would be serving a federal law enforcement agency in Clarksburg, WV.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring operational and development systems, investigating and resolving system user issues reported with these systems with regard to the integration of security architecture & engineering efforts into the information technology life-cycle in an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) cloud-based environment.

• Leveraging knowledge of the deployed IaC, ensures integrated security concepts, controls, and mechanisms deployed into the design and architecture phases to produce a reliably secure product.

• May also assist with the deployment of patching of systems, the engineering, implementation, integration, maintenance and improvement of systems.

• Additional responsibilities include technical Agile work tracking and planning, technical design, development and integration, verification and validation.

• The environment requires monitoring multiple physical and cloud-based sites, and monitoring, supporting users and administering the IaC security, configuring necessary components and software utilizing IaC utilities.

Responsibilities may also include:

• Software change management.

• Applies fundamental concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments

• Performs work that requires practical experience and training.

• Work is performed under supervision.

• Solves simple, routine technical problems following established procedures and policies.

• Requires basic knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of narrow technical domain.

Preferred Experience:

• Infrastructure management: Set up and maintain infrastructure, including servers and cloud systems

• Immutable Infrastructure & AMI Design: Expertise in designing AMIs using automated tools like HashiCorp Packer; specifically incorporating Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) installation and optimization into the image build process.

• Process automation: Create and maintain automated processes for testing, deployment, and security

• Automated Image Pipelines: Experience integrating image builds into a CI/CD lifecycle (e.g., GitLab CI) to ensure AMIs are patched, hardened, and updated without manual intervention.

• Configuration Management (Ansible): Experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and roles to automate the configuration of secure, STIG-compliant operating systems.

• Virtualization & Remote Display: Understanding of Citrix infrastructure components and the ability to troubleshoot VDA registration, session latency, and display protocol issues (ICA/HDX) on cloud-hosted instances.

• Communication: Collaborate with development, operations, and other teams to ensure effective communication

• Troubleshooting: Identify and fix issues in production, and monitor system performance

• Product updates: Launch product updates, and create integrations to improve the user experience

• Cybersecurity: Incorporate cybersecurity best practices as directed into processes

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, other related discipline, or equivalent experience; Cyber Security and IaC certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree

• 2 years of general experience

• Ability to work collaboratively and independently to develop creative solutions

• Ability to work well and productively within a small team environment both in-person and remote telework

• Self Starter

• Strong communication skills

• US Citizenship

• DOD Top Secret Clearance is required.

Technologies Desired:

• Terraform

• Ansible

• Kubernetes

• Istio

• AWS: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch

• Redis

• Elasticsearch

• Grafana

• Gitlab

Preferred Qualifications:

• Operating Systems: Linux

• Software development tools: Eclipse, Vscode, Gitlab, Jira, Confluence

• Languages/frameworks: Jira

• Source control tools: Gitlab

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