Junior Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Leidos Defense Systems is actively hiring for a Junior Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join our team to support a variety of Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS).

The selected individual will be responsible for building and maintaining a secure DevOps environment to enable software development activities for agile development teams. Our team is solving the world’s toughest challenges to support customers with “can’t fail” missions.

Become a part of a team where you'll know that the system that you help develop and support are keeping deployed warfighters safe on the battlefield as well as aiding in the defense of our nation from foreign adversaries.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Build a DevSecOps environment utilizing established tools to support complex software and hardware systems' rapid development, security, testing, validation, and fielding.

• Create, lead, and implement the processes and tools to deliver an automated, CI/CD pipeline based DevSecOps principles capable of supporting VMs, containers, compiled software applications, scripts, and source code in a pre-compiled state.

• Work across the development, security, operations, and Infrastructure (HW and SW) teams to ensure that the DevSecOps tools and processes are supporting the holistic system development, integration, and fielding effort.

• Coach and review the work of lower-level technical staff.

• This position involves working collaboratively with a local and remote software team that includes product owner, technical leadership, and other engineers.

• The candidate will provide technical leadership for software development activities as a member of an agile team and will actively participate in program increment planning and related team activities.

• The candidate will be responsible for using sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, fault tolerant, and reusable, including providing software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process.

• The candidate will work with other Software Engineers and System Engineers in resolving complex technical issues and problems that impact multiple facets of the system.

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar degree, and a minimum of four (4) or years of experience in a relevant field. Masters with a minimum of two (2) years of relevant experience in a relevant field or a High School diploma or equivalent and a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Experience with container orchestration tools Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker.

• In-depth knowledge/experience with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices to effectively apply advanced technical principles and concepts.

• Experience with integrating security checks (SAST, DAST, IAST) into CI/CD workflows.

• Proficiency in automating security testing tools like SonarQube, OWASP Dependency-Check, Veracode, etc with ability to provide real-time cyber vulnerability automation

• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to communicate with internal and external team members to work effectively with software teams and customers

• Ability to support program execution in classified environments.

• Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).

• In-depth knowledge with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins and GitLab.

• Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar technologies.

• Must have a strong sense of ownership and drive in digging into complex problems.

Must be a resident of Huntsville, AL or be willing to relocate to the Huntsville, AL area.

Must be a US citizen and have an active secret clearance or have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Knowledge of battle management systems and Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) is highly desirable.

• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS).

• Experience provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.).

• Strong understanding of cloud-native security controls and implementing a zero-trust archi