Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
33 days ago
Salary
£47.6K - £61K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior DevOps Engineer
Leidos
• As part of a high-performing Agile team, you will design, implement, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using a tailored SAFe Agile SecDevOps Scrum process. • You'll apply DevOps best practices and cloud-native design principles, leveraging AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to drive automation and continuous delivery across environments. • This role also includes hands-on work with automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure monitoring—alongside participation in Agile ceremonies, risk mitigation activities, and collaborative solution design. • Cross-functional flexibility across systems engineering, software development, testing, and security is highly valued.
Job Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in managing source code with GIT, including pull requests, branching strategies (Trunk-based, GitFlow), and collaborative version control workflows
- Expertise in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, including services like EC2, ECR, ECS, ECK, ASG, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM, ports, R53 etc
- Strong proficiency in IAC using Terraform and Ansible to provision, configure, and maintain secure and scalable cloud environments
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing automation for building, testing, and deploying applications across multiple environments
- Proven ability to write and maintain scripts and automation tools using Bash, Python, and PowerShell to enhance operational workflows and eliminate manual tasks
- Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and orchestration best practices, along with configuration management using Ansible.
- Knowledge of secrets management and access control using tools like Vault and IAM policies, ensuring secure handling of credentials and sensitive information
- Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, including encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege access, and compliance requirements.
- Hands-on experience in implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity
- Ability to implement robust monitoring and logging solutions e.g., CloudWatch, to ensure system reliability, observability, and proactive incident response
- Comfortable working in Agile development teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions, and actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups
- Capability to design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions that meet availability and performance objectives
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies in complex environments
- Understanding of routing, traffic management, and load balancing, including configuration of NGINX and AWS-native tools for optimizing traffic flow.
- Experience with structured release and change management processes, including deployment governance, rollback strategies, and versioning control.
Benefits
- 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)
- Flexible Working Scheme
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