Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $107.9k - $195.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ 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

• Serve as the hands-on technical principal, establish platform engineering standards, review designs and code, guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, and coordinate dependencies across teams • Lead design, configuration, integration, upgrades, patching, monitoring, capacity planning, compliance management, and troubleshooting for Red Hat OpenShift • Coordinate Linux, compute, networking, and storage requirements • Translate customer and operational requirements into system designs, implementation plans, and technical acceptance criteria • Evaluate reliability, security, performance, supportability, cost, and risk; document decisions and validate solutions before production • Lead GitOps adoption, including repository structures, branching, peer review, declarative configurations, environment promotion, reconciliation, and rollback procedures • Design, develop, review, and maintain reusable IaC and automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and routine operations • Establish testing, documentation, and change-control practices • Provide technical direction for CI/CD pipeline design and improvement across development, test, and production • Partner with developers on container builds, deployment configurations, resource requirements, and runtime troubleshooting • Serve as senior technical escalation point for Linux, OpenShift, cloud infrastructure, and deployment pipelines; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions • Use metrics, logs, reporting, and capacity trends to identify risks and optimize reliability, performance, resource utilization, and operational efficiency • Integrate compliance requirements and access controls into platform designs and automation • Develop architecture diagrams, configuration documentation, SOPs, work instructions, and implementation and recovery procedures • Provide knowledge transfer and technical mentoring • Provide estimates, identify dependencies and risks, sequence work through Agile planning, and communicate decisions and status to teams and customers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience; relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree • Demonstrated hands-on technical management, including design decisions, technical reviews, mentoring, and delivery of initiatives spanning infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud, and DevOps • Hands-on experience engineering, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting production Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Kubernetes environments, including upgrades, capacity management, and operational reliability • Experience with cloud-native architectures and compute, networking, and storage services supporting enterprise platforms and containerized workloads • Strong Linux systems administration experience, particularly Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including system configuration, troubleshooting, and scripting • Demonstrated experience implementing GitOps practices and delivering IaC and automation using Git version control, peer review, automated validation, and repeatable deployment processes • Proficiency in Python or an equivalent programming language, with ability to develop, test, review, and maintain automation code and operational tools • Experience designing, building, and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Tekton • Proficiency with container technologies such as Docker and experience helping development teams resolve container build, deployment, configuration, and runtime issues • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills using metrics, logs, and capacity or performance data • Ability to communicate technical decisions and trade-offs, collaborate across teams, plan and prioritize work, and deliver secure, documented, supportable solutions • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance, or greater • Participation in scheduled on-call rotations, including after-hours, weekend, and holiday support as required • Obtain a baseline 8140 certification (IAT Level II: CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP) within 3 months of hire • Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD • Preferred: experience supporting Azure-native architectures and cloud PaaS/SaaS environments • Preferred: experience with Terraform, Ansible, or comparable tools • Preferred: experience with ROSA, EKS, AKS, and other cloud-based Kubernetes solutions • Preferred: DoD Secret clearance and 8140 Level II Security+ certification