Leidos is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer as part of our DevOps team in support of a large-scale, complex Software program within the Department of Justice. This role will ensure the applications are reliable, scalable, and efficient. This role will act as the bridge between development and IT operations, applying software engineering principles to automate infrastructure tasks, improve system reliability, and optimize performance.

Responsibilities: 

• Automate operations, CI/CD, and release management to ensure system reliability and scalability. 
• Monitor system health, performance, and capacity in real-time, proactively addressing issues. 
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems for rapid incident response, in accordance with ATF SLAs or KPIs. 
• Conduct post-incident reviews to identify root causes and drive remediation efforts. 
• Manage OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters and define application-level infrastructure using Terraform. 
• Analyze historical data to predict and provision future infrastructure needs. 
• Support application-level infrastructure (DBs, S3, IAM) while interfacing with the hardware/networking team, project capacity and utilization.  
• Improve system stability by managing, monitoring, and scaling services, focusing on reducing manual work and responding to incidents.
• Provide rotational on-call coverage, support incident response and conduct RCA for outages

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field with 8+ years of experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 3+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps.
• Proficient in Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, and observability tools.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
• Ability to obtain Public Trust
• US Citizenship

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience with root cause analysis (RCA) and disaster recovery execution.
• Familiarity with compliance evidence collection and risk-based release gating.
• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and cross-team escalation processes.

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Original Posting:

April 14, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

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.