DevOps Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $87.1k - $157.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Develop, configure, manage, and maintain Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift) platforms running in AWS • Perform cluster upgrades, patching, monitoring, capacity management, reporting, compliance management, and platform troubleshooting • Coordinate with DevOps, development, and cloud operations teams on hosting compute, networking, storage, availability, and performance • Partner with application development teams to deploy and operate containerized applications on OpenShift • Provide guidance on deployment configurations, resource requirements, and CI/CD integration • Troubleshoot deployment and runtime issues while maintaining platform security and operational standards • Use observability data, including reports, metrics, logs, and capacity trends, to identify reliability risks and optimization opportunities • Provide technical direction, prioritize and implement platform improvements, refine monitoring and alerting, and validate measurable gains • Design, configure, implement, and improve GitOps workflows, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD integrations • Lead GitOps pipeline designs, implementation plans, operational documentation, and continual improvement of containerization services • Develop and deploy Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and DevOps solutions for Leidos and customer projects • Work in an Agile process, plan work into sprints, and participate in daily scrum meetings • Develop IaC and automation capabilities for customer environments • Design and implement container-based deployment solutions for enterprise applications • Develop automation and tooling to improve reliability and operational efficiency • Improve and troubleshoot container orchestration environments, primarily OpenShift • Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform and deployment issues with minimal oversight • Mentor junior engineers and review technical implementations • Lead technical initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• Requires BS and a minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with a minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience; relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree • Ability to obtain Public Trust Clearance, or greater • Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, including setup, configuration, and administration • Proficient with Python or equivalent programming language • Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Tekton • Experience working in Agile teams and using Jira • Proficiency in container technologies such as Docker • Experience designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and/or Ansible • Experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes • Experience with cloud-first AWS/Azure native architectures and cloud PaaS & SaaS services • Commitment to adopting and adhering to DevOps industry best practices • Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a team environment • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Ability to plan and prioritize tasking • Ability to perform high-quality work independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment • Ability to interact positively, collaborate, and communicate appropriately with team members • Must obtain a baseline 8140 certification (IAT Level II: CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+, CND, or SSCP) within 3 months of hire • Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD preferred • Relevant certifications such as Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or RHCE preferred • DoD secret clearance and 8140 Level II Security+ certification preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Participation in team on-call responsibilities • Opportunity to work with cross-functional developers, engineers, DevOps, and cloud operations professionals • Mentoring and learning opportunities • Agile work environment • Opportunity to work on internal and customer-facing projects