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Leidos Senior Technical Operations Engineer in Bethesda, Maryland
Description
Leidos has an exciting opening for you, our next TS/SCI cleared Senior Technical Operations Engineer working with a dynamic team to design, develop and deploy a state-of-the-art technology stack supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization program as well as our client’s mission to centralize and standardize Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE). You will have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values inclusion, innovation, collaboration, and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely.
As a Senior Technical Operations Engineer you will be responsible for the availability and performance of a full stack containerized microservice software platform. You will participate in fostering a DevSecOps culture, building strong cross functional collaboration with systems engineering, architecture, development, security, operations, and integration teams, in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of systems engineers, developers, integrators, system administrators on the following key tasks:
System Reliability & Performance – Maintaining system uptime, performance, and capacity planning for a big data production platform with a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL backends, Kafka messaging, and using Java, Python, and React as well as low code software technologies (e.g. Appian)
Monitoring & Observability – Utilizing tools to monitor systems and detect issues proactively.
Incident Response – Triage and troubleshooting issues, managing failures, performing root cause analysis, and conducting post-incident reviews.
SLIs and SLOs – Defining and tracking Service-Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) to measure reliability
Management Oversight – Leading a team of system administrators who staff a help desk during core business hours; maintaining technical standards and mentoring staff on troubleshooting techniques
Technical Leadership – Collaborating with system engineers to design solutions for new features and requirements and providing technical input to systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models working in coordination/collaboration with SE team members and architect team
SAFe Agile – Participating in Agile release planning, scrum of scrums, bug triage, design sessions and other meetings
You bring enthusiasm, the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience, and meet the following qualifications:
BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 12+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 10+ years of experience with Master’s degree. Additional years of experience in lieu of degree are acceptable.
Must have an active Top Secret/ SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
Possess at least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification, e.g., CCNA Security, CySA+, Security+ CE, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate)
Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification per DoD 8570 policy
Experience with container/container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes, Gitlab pipeline development, and Linux OS
Experience with production/enterprise systems at scale
Experience with cloud-based services, preferably AWS, for enterprise applications
Cloud infrastructure experience
Comfortable with Elastic Search, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Kibana, and Keycloak
Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution
Team leadership and line management experience
Strong communication skills, collaboration, and the ability to work under pressure during incidents
You will wow us even more if you have some of these:
Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
Experience with development, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.
Experience with Appian or other low-code software technologies
Experience with any of the following technologies:
Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP, JMS)
Kubernetes monitoring, e.g., Prometheus/Graphana
GPU-based Kubernetes
SALT for deployment automation
Nexus
Experience with security best practices for services: authN/Z, secrets management, data protection
GraphQL familiarity
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (ie CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi)
AWS cloud certifications
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Original Posting:
April 17, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .
Pay and Benefits
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
REQNUMBER: R-00181165
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.