Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Farnborough, UK (Hybrid)

Clearance: High level of security clearance required (SC/ DV-Developed Vetting)

Leidos is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to provide demanding critical system development and support for national infrastructure for our customer. The system and role has a security focus and the candidate must have experience in working in secure environments.

UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL 

This role will involve closely working various internal and external teams/suppliers in large scale integrations to maintain, develop and support pipelines in a SAFe Agile methodology based primarily on AWS and VMware Cloud Foundation Clouds.

This is role is a hands on role, where the candidate will be expected to help guide the team and work to encourage knowledge sharing. The candidate is expected to self motivate and work with the team in joining a good team ethic in a high pressure environment.

Are you ready for your next career challenge?

This role involves automation and streamlining as well as pipelining COTS products using Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes among other components. This role involves creating operations and processes as well developing new deployments and integrations. The role will involve getting the system into operation and supporting that system into and through BAU, troubleshooting and resolving issues in dev, test, and production environments. The role will involve supporting and writing design and implementation documentation.

This is a really fantastic role and a great career potential and opportunities within the same project that will mean something as it has a very real world application that when the system goes into operation.

Your Role and Responsibilities:

• Support software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.

• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevOps environment.

• Support the Solution Architect(s) where required to ensure that proposed solutions requiring DevOps meet the requirement(s) and are compatible with the Engineering Baseline.

• Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices

• Codifying DevOps best practices for enterprise

• Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to AWS and VCF cloud environments and other tasks

• Scripting and maintaining build environments

• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevOps environment

Basic Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in many of the following tools: Atlassian products, Jenkins Pipeline, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS.

• Demonstrated experience working within a software development team and supporting developers and developer activities

• Demonstrated experience with scripting Languages including Python and Unix shell Scripting

• Candidate must have at least 5+ years of prior relevant work in a senior position

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in science, technical, or engineering discipline.

• AWS Certifications - AWS Professional DevOps Engineer 

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
•    Contributory Pension Scheme
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•    Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

•    Dynamic Working 

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

Original Posting Date:

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:

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.