Hybrid DevOps Lead

at Leidos

• Job title: DevOps Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $107,900 - $195,050 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, SDLC, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• DevOps Lead at Leidos managing platform engineering, SRE, and application security functions. Driving operational excellence and ensuring scalability for federal government applications.

Responsibilities

• Direct the design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning, and monitoring processes across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead efforts to standardize and optimize platform engineering practices, adopting Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and microservices deployment models.
• Develop and enforce SRE principles, including release management, system reliability, observability, incident management, SLAs/SLOs, and fault tolerance.
• Integrate security throughout the SDLC, ensuring robust code review, vulnerability scanning, and threat modeling within automated pipelines.
• Mentor and lead a multidisciplinary team, promoting an agile, collaborative, and innovative work environment.
• Champion creation and curation of reusable infrastructure patterns, automation scripts, cloud orchestration templates, and developer self-service platforms.
• Oversee operational readiness, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure high availability and rapid recovery from service disruptions.
• Drive a culture of innovation by assessing and implementing advancements in DevOps, platform engineering, and SRE practices.
• Prepare and present operational dashboards, incident reports, risk assessments, and status updates to program leadership and customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of progressive experience in software development, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years of technical team leadership or management experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in advanced DevOps practices, including CI/CD, configuration management, automation, and cloud-native operations (AWS, Azure, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with SRE frameworks, monitoring, logging, alerting, and reliability engineering techniques.
• Proven background in securing applications and systems, including integrating security into pipelines and coordinating with security/compliance teams.
• Strong technical knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), and end-to-end application/platform lifecycle management.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain required government security clearance.

Benefits

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement