Leidos Holding
DevOps Engineer
Leidos Holding, Mc Lean, VA
Description
Leidos operates FHWA's Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory (STOL), where staff develop emerging technologies to improve highway transportation safety, mobility, and environmental impacts. Saxton Lab provides a variety of services to boost the advancement and deployment of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications and cooperative behavior. Leidos seeks a proactive, motivated, and knowledgeable professional who will learn and support client needs and gain their trust.
Learn about STOL here: https://highways.dot.gov/research/laboratories/saxton-transportation-operations-laboratory/saxton-transportation-operations-laboratory-overview
Leidos is seeking software DevOps Engineer who is ready to take ownership of the processes and tools, and possesses a flexible, hands-on, take-charge attitude. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of systems and software engineering processes for establishing and maintaining consistency of product and service performance. The candidate will also have direct experience in software build, deployment, version control, configuration management and testing.
Our systems operate in the following areas:
Location: Mclean, VA
Primary Duties:
The DevOps Engineer will be part of a larger software development team that advances connected and automated vehicle technologies for FHWA via developing, testing, and demonstrating new capabilities associated with vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. The DevOps engineer will perform technical work and develop deliverables as needed.
The DevOps Engineer is expected to work on a full time basis and report to FHWA's Turner Fairbank Highway Research Facility in McLean, VA. Primary job functions will include ownership of the CI/CD pipeline, specifically:
Anticipated pay range for this position: $80-100k
Original Posting Date: 2024-07-31While 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 $65,000.00 - $117,500.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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 a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .
Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here .
Securing Your Data Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos' name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system - never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other person a l information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at [email protected] .
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission .
Commitment to Diversity 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.
Leidos operates FHWA's Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory (STOL), where staff develop emerging technologies to improve highway transportation safety, mobility, and environmental impacts. Saxton Lab provides a variety of services to boost the advancement and deployment of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications and cooperative behavior. Leidos seeks a proactive, motivated, and knowledgeable professional who will learn and support client needs and gain their trust.
Learn about STOL here: https://highways.dot.gov/research/laboratories/saxton-transportation-operations-laboratory/saxton-transportation-operations-laboratory-overview
Leidos is seeking software DevOps Engineer who is ready to take ownership of the processes and tools, and possesses a flexible, hands-on, take-charge attitude. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of systems and software engineering processes for establishing and maintaining consistency of product and service performance. The candidate will also have direct experience in software build, deployment, version control, configuration management and testing.
Our systems operate in the following areas:
- Cooperative automated vehicles
- Traffic operations
- Intelligent transportation systems
Location: Mclean, VA
Primary Duties:
The DevOps Engineer will be part of a larger software development team that advances connected and automated vehicle technologies for FHWA via developing, testing, and demonstrating new capabilities associated with vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. The DevOps engineer will perform technical work and develop deliverables as needed.
The DevOps Engineer is expected to work on a full time basis and report to FHWA's Turner Fairbank Highway Research Facility in McLean, VA. Primary job functions will include ownership of the CI/CD pipeline, specifically:
- Serve as the primary manager of the GitHub organizations, where our open source and private repositories reside ( https://github.com/usdot-fhwa-stol, https://github.com/usdot-jpo-ode, https://github.com/usdot-fhwa-OPS ).
- Act as the first point of contact for third party contributors to our repositories, performing triage and routing for their issues and pull requests.
- Reporting on metrics of open-source repository activity.
- Managing public and private documentation stores on Confluence and internal document management facilities.
- Managing workflow and ticketing process on Jira, including maintaining automated interactions among Jira, Confluence, Github, and the continuous integration server.
- Create, modify, own and enforce strict adherence to software build and release processes, using modern best practices, and act as the initiator of formal release builds. Provide configuration status accounting and version management.
- Develop, test and maintain build and deployment for CI/CD pipelines.
- Drive the program team toward automation and deployment best practices.
- Act as toolsmith for the team's development, integration and deployment environment, including installing, configuring, integrating and maintaining multiple tools for maximum team productivity and ease of use.
- Contribute in occasional demonstrations, meetings, and webinars.
- Produce clear and concise written communication and deliverables.
- Participate in routine peer reviews of your work and providing critical review of others' work products.
- Writing technical reports.
- Freedom to manage, own, and develop solutions and new support services.
- Client interaction and relationship development.
- Develop, edit or review system level test plans and detailed test cases, given requirements or enhancement descriptions.
- Execute system tests, documenting anomalies and tracking them to closure; manage documentation of test results where appropriate to ensure testing has met requirements in a timely manner. Test execution may involve operation of vehicles with various levels of automation on closed test tracks or public roads.
- Test article setup and configuration, which may involve software installation, configuration manipulations at the application of operating system level, and occasional minor system administration.
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with 2+ years of experience in software and systems development projects or a Masters with less than 2 years of related experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance (which includes three years of immediate residency in the US).
- Must be able to demonstrate competence in using Windows for typical office applications and a high degree of familiarity with Linux command line interactions.
- Experience managing software configuration in a Git environment.
- Experience managing software continuous integration and deployment tool suites, such as GitHub Actions, CMake/CPack, Debian Package Repository, Maven, NPM.
- Experience with AWS user and EC2 instance administration.
- Experience creating, updating and deploying software using Docker and DockerHub.
- Experience with issue tracking and management software, such as JIRA, GitHub, etc.
- Enjoys helping others, is self-motivated, takes ownership, takes initiative, and possesses a desire to learn and grow, while self-teaching with minimal guidance.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to listen and accurately identify client needs and issues.
- Proactive in actions and communications, and able to follow through on commitments and deliver quality products ahead of or on schedule.
- Experience in Agile methodology.
- Experience in testing and evaluating software, and automated test tools.
- Software programming or shell scripting.
- Experience orchestrating and building software in an open-source environment
- Experience in administration and customization of Confluence.
- Experience in data management and analysis tools.
Anticipated pay range for this position: $80-100k
Original Posting Date: 2024-07-31While 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 $65,000.00 - $117,500.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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 a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .
Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here .
Securing Your Data Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos' name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system - never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other person a l information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at [email protected] .
If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission .
Commitment to Diversity 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.