Principle Site Reliability Engineer with Ansible

The Digital Modernization Sector has an opening for a Principle Site Reliability Engineer with Ansible to work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week.

Leidos is seeking a Principle Site Reliability Engineer with Ansible to be part of the mission solution and help lead digital modernization strategy. We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with these key required skills:  Ansible Automation, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) Administration, Jenkins Administration, Checkmarx Administration, and Availability Monitoring / Triage (Splunk, Dynatrace).

This position will require onsite work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, automate, ensure reliability, and implement next-generation DevSecOps platform using system/software engineering best practices and the latest technologies:

  • DevOps (Jenkins, Nexus Repository, Checkmarx, SonarQube, BlackDuck, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker)

  • Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Ansible, Scripting, UrbanCode Deploy)

• Provide on-call support for next-generation DevSecOps platform.

• Administer DevSecOps platform including installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configurating on Linux.

• Provide subject matter expertise in one or more of these areas: automation, security, monitoring and alerting, incident response optimization, SQL tuning, Atlassian suite including plugin administration, and other CI/CD tools.

• Investigate and actively support with operational team to ensure business continuity regardless of component: front-end, business logic, middleware, networking, CI/CD pipeline, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).

• Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience.

• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Education & Qualifications (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, OR a related field with 12+ years of experience OR Masters degree with 10 years of relevant experience.  Additional years of experience may be substituted/accepted in lieu of degree.

• 12+ years of combined experience with system administration of Jenkins, Git (Bitbucket, GitHub, Gitlab), Checkmarx, and a DevSecOps platform.

• 4+ years of experience with Ansible automation.

• 2+ years of experience in on-call operation support role for a mission critical system.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Factors to Help You Shine (Required Qualifications): 

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Strong experience with Ansible Automation and authoring playbooks and roles for installing, maintaining, or upgrading platforms.

• Solid experience using version control software such as Git including peer reviewing playbooks.

• Hands-on experience administrating/maintaining DevSecOps platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins).

• Hands-on experience administrating Checkmarx via Ansible playbooks.

• Hands-on experience administrating Atlassian Suite (one or more of the following:  Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), associated plugins, and integration.

• Experience administrating an artifact repository (one or more of the following:  Nexus, NXRM, JFrog Artifactory), and software quality scanning tools (one or more of the following:  Checkmarx, SonarQube, Black Duck).

• Solid experience triaging and monitoring complex issues, outages, and incidents as part of on-call support rotation.

• Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Shell, or Python.

• Solid experience with integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools.

• Experience analyzing, researching, maintaining, and integrating tool plugins.

• Basic Linux skills supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

• Basic networking skills.

How to Stand Out from the Crowd (Desired Qualifications):

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Experience creating complex Jira workflows, projects, service desk, custom configurations, notifications, etc.

• Basic SQL skills (e.g., data manipulation, removing duplicate records).

• Atlassian Suite administration certifications.

• AWS cloud certificati