Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

Kudu Dynamics is a Leidos company, founded on a decade of expertise in computer network operations and staffed with professionals who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities across various platforms including desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems. Our team combines centuries of research, development, and operations experience to anticipate and address future threats.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure environments
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Lead container orchestration and infrastructure modernization efforts
• Troubleshoot complex production, networking, and deployment issues
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability best practices
• Drive infrastructure reliability, scalability, and security improvements
• Support vulnerability remediation and system hardening initiatives
• Mentor junior DevOps and engineering team members
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize deployment workflows and operational readiness
• Support onboarding, operational documentation, and environment management

Requirements

• US Citizenship with TS/SCI and Counter-Intelligence Polygraph clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• Expertise with Docker and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm)
• Strong proficiency in Linux system administration
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD
• Expertise with infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and visualization technologies (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack)
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and production deployments
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and system architecture concepts
• Experience supporting high-availability and scalable environments
• Ability to lead technical initiatives with minimal supervision
• Proactive and driven to achieve results

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering

Skills

• Networking protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTPS, TLS)
• Diagnosing and resolving networking issues

Benefits

Pay Range: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

Additional details about pay and benefits are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Pay and Benefits

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