Leidos
Senior Software Engineer
Washington, DC · Senior
No sponsorship$108k-$195kDetected 1 day ago
KubernetesCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringCybersecurityTest AutomationZero TrustCollaboration
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About the role
- Contribute to continuous improvement of automation, security integration, and deployment efficiency across HAPS applications.
- Please be aware that this role may require some light travel as deemed necessary by the customer.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for assigned applications, including test integration and artifact/build traceability across environments.
- Implement deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) and validate system readiness prior to production releases.
- Apply secure coding standards and dependency management practices; support shift-left security practices (i.e., integrating security testing and secure coding standards early in design and development, rather than only before deployment) throughout the SDLC.
- Collaborate with DevSecOps and SRE teams on release engineering, post-deployment validation, and rollback/backout procedures.
- Job Description The Digital Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior Software Engineer to support the Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Information & Technology (OIT).
- The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, and supports secure enterprise applications, cloud-native services, and automated software delivery solutions.
- This role focuses on CI/CD automation, containerization, Kubernetes deployments, secure coding practices, observability, and collaboration with DevSecOps and SRE teams to deliver reliable, mission-critical systems.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise software applications
- candidates without a degree must have at least 14 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with containerization and Kubernetes-based application deployment Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for application environments and supporting cloud resources.
- Must be able to occasionally travelC.
- Must have a US Citizenship The ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.
- The ability to travel, as needed, to customer sites.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Instrument applications with required logging, metrics, and tracing standards
Nice to have
- The ideal candidate will bring: Experience implementing blue/green, canary, rolling, or other advanced deployment strategies Experience applying secure coding standards and approved dependency management practices.
- Experience collaborating with Site Reliability Engineers to align application instrumentation with SLIs and SLOs.
- Experience improving deployment frequency and reducing change failure rate.
- HAPS If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling.
- We're not hiring followers.
- We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail.
- Step 10 is ancient history.
- We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Compensation
- 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.
- Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026.
- 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.
Benefits
- In this contract, Leidos assists with the underlying infrastructure, tools, and operational services used to build, deploy, secure, and run VA health applications.
Company info
- At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it.
- Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
- Implement automated container image builds, tagging, signing, and vulnerability scanning as part of the standard build process.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Must have a US Citizenship The ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
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