Junior Cloud/SecDevOps Engineer

Summary

Leidos is the largest provider of US government IT services, specializing in developing and sustaining large data and technology infrastructures. This role involves monitoring systems, resolving user issues, and integrating security architecture in a cloud-based environment for a federal law enforcement agency.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for monitoring operational and development systems, investigating and resolving system user issues reported with these systems with regard to the integration of security architecture & engineering efforts into the information technology life-cycle in an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) cloud-based environment
• Leveraging knowledge of the deployed IaC, ensures integrated security concepts, controls, and mechanisms deployed into the design and architecture phases to produce a reliably secure product
• May also assist with the deployment of patching of systems, the engineering, implementation, integration, maintenance and improvement of systems
• Additional responsibilities include technical Agile work tracking and planning, technical design, development and integration, verification and validation
• The environment requires monitoring multiple physical and cloud-based sites, and monitoring, supporting users and administering the IaC security, configuring necessary components and software utilizing IaC utilities
• Software change management
• Applies fundamental concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments
• Performs work that requires practical experience and training
• Work is performed under supervision
• Solves simple, routine technical problems following established procedures and policies
• Requires basic knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of narrow technical domain

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, other related discipline, or equivalent experience; Cyber Security and IaC certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree
• 2 years of general experience
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently to develop creative solutions
• Ability to work well and productively within a small team environment both in-person and remote telework
• Self Starter
• Strong communication skills
• US Citizenship
• DOD Top Secret Clearance is required
• Infrastructure management: Set up and maintain infrastructure, including servers and cloud systems
• Immutable Infrastructure & AMI Design: Expertise in designing AMIs using automated tools like HashiCorp Packer; specifically incorporating Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) installation and optimization into the image build process
• Process automation: Create and maintain automated processes for testing, deployment, and security
• Automated Image Pipelines: Experience integrating image builds into a CI/CD lifecycle (e.g., GitLab CI) to ensure AMIs are patched, hardened, and updated without manual intervention
• Configuration Management (Ansible): Experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and roles to automate the configuration of secure, STIG-compliant operating systems
• Virtualization & Remote Display: Understanding of Citrix infrastructure components and the ability to troubleshoot VDA registration, session latency, and display protocol issues (ICA/HDX) on cloud-hosted instances
• Communication: Collaborate with development, operations, and other teams to ensure effective communication
• Troubleshooting: Identify and fix issues in production, and monitor system performance
• Product updates: Launch product updates, and create integrations to improve the user experience
• Cybersecurity: Incorporate cybersecurity best practices as directed into processes
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Kubernetes
• Istio
• AWS: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• Grafana
• Gitlab
• Operating Systems: Linux
• Software development tools: Eclipse, Vscode, Gitlab, Jira, Confluence
• Languages/frameworks: Jira
• Source control tools: Gitlab

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, other related discipline, or equivalent experience; Cyber Security and IaC certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree
• 2 years of general experience
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently to develop creative solutions
• Ability to work well and productively within a small team environment both in-person and remote telework
• Self Starter
• Strong communication skills
• US Citizenship
• DOD Top Secret Clearance is required

Nice to Haves

• Infrastructure management: Set up and maintain infrastructure, including servers and cloud systems
• Immutable Infrastructure & AMI Design: Expertise in designing AMIs using automated tools like HashiCorp Packer; specifically incorporating Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) installation and optimization into the image build process
• Process automation: Create and maintain automated processes for testing, deployment, and security
• Automated Image Pipelines: Experience integrating image builds into a CI/CD lifecycle (e.g., GitLab CI) to ensure AMIs are patched, hardened, and updated without manual intervention
• Configuration Management (Ansible): Experience developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and roles to automate the configuration of secure, STIG-compliant operating systems
• Virtualization & Remote Display: Understanding of Citrix infrastructure components and the ability to troubleshoot VDA registration, session latency, and display protocol issues (ICA/HDX) on cloud-hosted instances
• Communication: Collaborate with development, operations, and other teams to ensure effective communication
• Troubleshooting: Identify and fix issues in production, and monitor system performance
• Product updates: Launch product updates, and create integrations to improve the user experience
• Cybersecurity: Incorporate cybersecurity best practices as directed into processes
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Kubernetes
• Istio
• AWS: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• Grafana
• Gitlab
• Operating Systems: Linux
• Software development tools: Eclipse, Vscode, Gitlab, Jira, Confluence
• Languages/frameworks: Jira
• Source control tools: Gitlab

Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement