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Jr DevOps System Engineer

Leidos

Leidos

Software Engineering
North Charleston, SC, USA
USD 67,600-122,200 / year
Posted on Jul 29, 2025

JR DevOps Engineer – DCGS-N Program Location: North Charleston, SC

About the Role - Leidos National Security Sector is excited to offer an opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join the Distributed Common Ground System – Navy (DCGS-N) program. This role focuses on developing, maintaining, and operating CI/CD pipelines across government labs and cloud environments. You’ll collaborate with integration and software engineering teams in an Agile SAFe environment to deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise intelligence products.

What You'll Do!

  • Design and maintain DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines for hybrid deployments

  • Support cloud infrastructure baselines and production system availability

  • Administer and operate all components of the DevOps environment

  • Define and codify CI/CD best practices across the enterprise

  • Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate application and infrastructure deployments/environments.

  • Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline with 2+ yrs of relative experience (additional experience, training, and/or certifications may substitute degree requirement).

  • 3+ years of experience with DevSecOps tools (GitLab, Docker) and CM principles

  • IAT Level II 8140 certification requirements to be a privileged user in the lab and cloud environments including but not limited to CompTIA Security+ CE and an Environmental Certification.

  • Hands-on experience with tools such as GitHub, Artifactory, Jira, Confluence, ArgoCD, Trivy, Defect Dojo, KeyCloak.

  • Strong Linux infrastructure management skills

  • Willingness to travel (1–4 weeks/year) and ability to obtain a U.S. passport

Preferred Skills:

  • One or more years’ experience in support of design, testing, deployment, and sustainment of DCGS-N or other C4ISR programs.

  • AWS Associate Certification (Developer, Solution Architect, or Sys Ops Admin)

  • Demonstrated experience in container orchestration using Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, or AWS EKS/ECS/ECR

  • Demonstrated experience with Languages including Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and Unix shell Scripting

  • Demonstrated experience with Ansible and Terraform.

  • DoD Top Secret/SCI Clearance

Clearance Requirement:

  • US Citizen; Currently possess an active Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI.

Why Choose Leidos? Be part of a team where your contributions directly support mission-critical defense systems. Develop your skills in cutting-edge technologies, collaborate on impactful projects, and advance your career in an environment that values innovation and excellence.

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Original Posting:

July 28, 2025

For 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.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $67,600.00 - $122,200.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.