Senior/ Lead DevOps Engineer

Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Farnborough (Hybrid)

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.

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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 an Azure Cloud with aspects of hybrid cloud.

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.

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This role involves automation and streamlining as well as pipelining COTS products using Terraform, Ansible and Kuberetes 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
• 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 an AWS cloud environment 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/Azure AKS.
• 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.
• Azure Qualifications:
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals 
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert