Sr. Software EngineerLeidos
Job Summary
Description
Leidos is presently seeking a Sr. Software Engineer in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency GSMO-II Program. The selected candidate will be a key member of CESO Engineering team, working hands-on and will provide technical expertise in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps and Software Configuration Management in support of the automated and rapid delivery of innovative solutions to a hybrid on-premises/cloud-based environment.
Primary Responsibilities
- Create and maintain the DevOps platform strategic roadmap, for continual process improvement.
- Proactively and independently identify, report, monitor, and mitigate technical risks.
- Communicate and collaborate frequently with stakeholders to ensure successful completion of project objectives.
- Implement software release version control, provide release management support throughout a software product's life cycle (initial software development through promotion to Test, QA and Production Environments), ensuring the consistency and reliability of software builds.
- Provide technical direction, leadership, guidance, and training on software engineering processes, ensuring congruence of the various infrastructure, software, configurations, and interfaces maintained under configuration control.
- Develop automated CI/CD build/deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible and Bitbucket.
- Develop automated tests using Ansible and other applicable tools.
- Design, develop, document, test and deploy software written in Python, JavaScript, Java and SQL.
- Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums and demonstrate working software while collaborating with a geographically distributed (remote) team, communicating and collaborating frequently with teammates to ensure successful completion of project objectives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve installation, infrastructure, and system issues.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in relevant technical discipline and 12+ of related experience; additional related years of experience are accepted in lieu of a degree.
- Must possess a Top Secret DoD security clearance with SCI eligibility prior to start date.
- Ability to obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification prior to start date.
- Must possess one of the following certificates:
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate: Validates proficiency in developing and maintaining applications on AWS.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional: Focuses on provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on AWS.
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying software in a cloud environment (AWS is required).
- Prior software engineering technical experience in an Agile software development environment.
- Full software lifecycle experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
- Previous software configuration management experience, including release planning, managing software baselines, merging branches, and producing software builds.
- Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership.
- Ability to multi-task, self-assign work, and lead a geographically distributed team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and attention to detail, including excellent organizational and documentation skills.
- Previous experience tracking projects in Jira or equivalent Agile Project Management software.
- Experience with software development languages/environments such as: JavaScript. GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible Automation, Python, JavaScript, Java, PSSQL, YAML, and Terraform.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on full-SDLC Agile Software Development experience, including full software lifecycle automation experience (design, development, test, deployment), including deployment to a production environment.
- Experience designing, building, and deploying DevOps pipelines with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
- Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards and updating applications and code to meet security scans and security implementation guidelines (e.g. STIGs).
- Experience developing software on a Linux platform (RHEL 9), including experience working in a UNIX command line environment.
- Experience with distributed version control software, such as Bitbucket, and experience with development workflows in Git or an equivalent tool
- Experience designing and building automated software testing pipelines using Ansible, and other applicable tools.
- Software requirements analysis and design documentation experience, including the creation of functional, technical, and architectural design artifacts as well as test cases and installation, deployment, and configuration documentation.
- Experience with Atlassian tools, including Bitbucket integrations with JIRA and Confluence.
- Experience integrating code review systems into the SCM process.
- Experience with static code analysis, particularly security scans.
- Experience leading code, document, and other artifact reviews
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Original Posting:
November 8, 2025For 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.
