Platform Operations Engineer

About the role

This role directly supports our customer’s mission to centralize and standardize the Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team to ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of a full stack, containerized microservices platform.
• Partner with a multidisciplinary team of systems engineers, developers, integrators, and system administrators in the following areas:
• System Reliability & Performance — Ensuring uptime, performance, and capacity planning for a large scale big data production platform with a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and technologies such as Java, Python, React, and low code tools like Appian.
• Misson & Observability — Leveraging monitoring tools to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Incident Response — Leading triage, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post incident reviews.
• SLIs & SLOs — Defining and tracking reliability metrics.
• SAFe Agile — Participating in release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and cross team coordination.

Requirements

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6+ years with a Master’s;
• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph;
• At least one DoD 8570.01 M IAT Level II+ certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate));
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification;
• Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, Linux, and containerized environments;
• Experience supporting enterprise scale production systems;
• Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS) and cloud infrastructure;
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Kibana, and Keycloak;
• Demonstrated success in cross functional coordination and execution;
• Strong communication skills and the ability to perform under pressure during incidents.

Qualifications

• You bring enthusiasm, the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience, and meet the following qualifications:

Skills

• Experience with Agile methodologies;
• Development experience (Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.);
• Experience with Appian or other low-code platforms;
• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, AMQP/JMS, Prometheus/Grafana, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT automation, Nexus, or GraphQL;
• Knowledge of security best practices (authN/Z, secrets management, data protection);
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi).

Benefits

Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

Pay

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.

Schedule

The majority of work is performed on-site at our customer location in Bethesda, MD, but we offer a flexible schedule, and some tasks may be completed remotely.

Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.