Senior DevSecOps Engineer - 6314 Remote/Teleworker US | leidos Job

Job Description

The Digital Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to support the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Information & Technology (OIT). In this contract, Leidos assists with the underlying infrastructure, tools, and operational services used to build, deploy, secure, and run VA health applications.

A Senior DevSecOps Engineer provides technical leadership in the architecture, implementation, and optimization of enterprise DevSecOps automation and deployment strategies supporting mission-critical cloud environments. This role requires the ability to design and deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native solutions while fostering automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Primary Responsibilities

The selected candidate will:

• Operate and maintain centralized secrets management solutions, ensuring automated rotation of production secrets and the timely rotation of non-automated secrets.
• Maintain environment configurations exclusively through approved Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tooling and review and approve IaC changes within established turnaround times.
• Perform scheduled configuration drift detection and remediating any identified drift within required timelines.
• Manage the organization's certificate inventory and lifecycle, ensuring the timely renewal of certificates and the immediate remediation of invalid, expired, or misconfigured certificates.
• Support daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings by preparing and presenting change requests for government approval, develop documented backout and rollback plans, and perform post-implementation production verification testing for all production changes.
• Prepare production change notifications and produce weekly change summary reports that document planned and completed changes, incidents, and any deviations from established processes.

Basic Qualifications

Candidates should possess:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering; candidates without a degree must have at least 16 years of relevant experience.
• The ability to architect and lead enterprise DevSecOps automation and deployment solutions supporting mission-critical cloud environments.
• Experience implementing:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Kubernetes and EKS orchestration
  • Terraform automation
  • Container security scanning
  • Automated scaling
  • Blue/green deployments
  • Canary releases
  • Zero Trust DevSecOps architectures
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.
• The ability to travel, as needed, to customer sites.
• Must have a US Citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate will bring experience with:

• Integrating change management workflows with IT Service Management (ITSM) platforms, such as ServiceNow.
• Service mesh technologies, including Istio, in production environments, as well as configuration drift detection and automated remediation tooling.
• Facilitating or presenting changes to a CCB and supporting compliance-driven change and configuration management practices in a federal or other highly regulated environment.
• Producing recurring compliance or security posture reports, such as software version posture assessments and security exception reporting.
• Working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, or a similar government agency.

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