Senior OpenShift/Kubernetes GitOps, CI/CD Engineer

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $107.9k - $195.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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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

• Architect and implement the SEC GitOps and CI/CD capability from the initial foundation through production operationalization • Assess the existing OpenShift/Kubernetes environment and application portfolio and develop repeatable patterns for containerizing and onboarding appropriate workloads • Design standardized GitHub repository structures for application source and GitOps deployment configuration • Engineer reusable OpenShift Pipelines/Tekton CI/CD templates for application build, test, security validation, container image creation, and promotion • Design and implement container image build workflows using Buildah or another appropriate OpenShift-compatible build technology • Integrate CI pipelines with Nexus and/or Artifactory for approved application dependencies and build artifacts • Integrate ACS into the software supply chain and implement security policy gates • Establish and operate Quay as the approved container image registry • Design and implement the Argo CD/Red Hat OpenShift GitOps deployment model, including desired state, reconciliation, environment promotion, drift management, and rollback • Establish Helm and Kustomize standards for OpenShift application deployment and environment-specific configuration • Integrate GitOps and CI/CD workflows with Entra ID/RBAC, CyberArk, ServiceNow change control, and Datadog observability • Establish end-to-end deployment traceability from source commit and approval through operational validation • Build and validate a representative application deployment as a reference implementation • Design and test repeatable deployment recovery and rollback procedures • Work closely with the Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer and other engineering teams • Document architecture, technical decisions, standards, interfaces, operating procedures, and implementation guidance for long-term Operations support

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a BS degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience • Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree requirements where permitted by contract • Strong hands-on experience designing, engineering, and operating enterprise CI/CD and/or GitOps solutions • Strong production experience with Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift environments • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining containerized application delivery workflows, including container image creation, registry management, deployment, and rollback • Experience with Git-based development and delivery workflows, including pull requests, branching, repository controls, and automated validation • Experience with CI/CD pipeline technologies such as Tekton, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or comparable enterprise tooling • Experience with GitOps technologies such as Argo CD, Flux, or comparable Kubernetes-native GitOps platforms • Experience with container build technologies and registries such as Buildah, Docker/BuildKit, Quay, Harbor, or comparable technologies • Experience with Kubernetes configuration and packaging technologies such as Helm, Kustomize, or comparable approaches • Experience integrating CI/CD or platform automation with security controls, identity/RBAC, secrets management, or ITSM/change-management systems • Strong troubleshooting, systems integration, and technical problem-solving skills across applications, platforms, networks, and infrastructure • Ability to architect solutions, evaluate alternatives, document technical decisions, and communicate recommendations to technical teams and customer stakeholders • Must meet applicable contract citizenship and work authorization requirements and be able to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust or other required clearance • Preferred: Direct experience designing or operating enterprise OpenShift Pipelines/Tekton environments • Preferred: Experience with Red Hat OpenShift GitOps/Argo CD • Preferred: Experience with Buildah, OpenShift Pipelines, Quay, and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security • Preferred: Experience with Nexus and/or JFrog Artifactory and container image promotion workflows • Preferred: Experience with Helm and Kustomize in production Kubernetes/OpenShift environments • Preferred: Experience containerizing and migrating applications from virtual machines or other traditional deployment platforms to Kubernetes/OpenShift • Preferred: Experience designing platform capabilities from the ground up, establishing standards, reference architectures, and reusable engineering patterns • Preferred: Experience with secure software supply-chain practices, including image scanning, provenance, signing, policy enforcement, and immutable deployments • Preferred: Experience integrating CI/CD and GitOps with ServiceNow, CyberArk, Entra ID, or enterprise observability platforms • Preferred: Experience in federal environments governed by FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP, or similar security requirements • Preferred: Relevant certifications in Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, cloud, DevOps, or related disciplines