Site Reliability Engineer with Ansible

Leidos is seeking a Devops Site Reliability Engineer with Ansible to be part of the mission solution and help lead SSA’s Digital Modernization Strategy Join one of our high performing teams responsible for installing, maintaining, and ensuring up-time of the next-generation DevSecOps platform used to support 2500+ users, 200+ projects/products, and 1000+ repositories. We serve the Social Security Administration (SSA) and their mission to meet the changing needs of the public, positively impacting at least 65 million American lives per month.  We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with these key required skills:  Ansible Automation, Jira Administration, Confluence Administration, Linux Basic Administration, Availability Monitoring / Triage (Splunk, Dynatrace). 

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.

If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, keep reading!

TEAM CULTURE

Your passion and values might be a good fit for our teams if you answer “yes” to the following questions:

• Are you looking for a company that puts employees first, with a focus on career, flexibility, and well-being?
• Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and teammates and believe that the best ideas are fostered in an inclusive environment?
• Are you searching for a team with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive for daily mission success?
• Are you comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership?
• Do you enjoy being a catalyst, solving complex problems, and providing innovative solutions?
• Do you have the flexibility, creativity, and resilience to pivot the mission for success?
• Do you have the courage to make tough ethical decisions with pride, transparency, and respect?

MENTORSHIP & CAREER GROWTH

Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Experienced team members will be assigned to new hires for one-on-one mentoring, collaborative reviews, and coaching on customer engagement to help each new hire successfully onboard and demonstrate their skills. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way that leverages your strengths and will help you further develop your skillset.

DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES

Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it. Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find you passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status.   Find your “Why” with us and take your place in our Leidos Family!!

• Build, maintain, automate, ensure reliability, and implement next-generation DevSecOps platform using system/software engineering best practices and the latest technologies:
  • DevOps (Jenkins, Nexus Repository, Checkmarx, SonarQube, BlackDuck, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Ansible, Scripting, UrbanCode Deploy)
• Provide on-call support for next-generation DevSecOps platform
• Administer DevSecOps platform including installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configurating on Linux.
• Provide subject matter expertise in one or more of these areas: automation, security, monitoring and alerting, incident response optimization, SQL tuning, Atlassian suite including plugin administration, and other CI/CD tools.
• Investigate and actively support with operational team to ensure business continuity regardless of component: front-end, business logic, middleware, networking, CI/CD pipeline, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).
• Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
• All other duties as assigned or directed

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or a related field.  Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Master’s or doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
• 8+ years of combined experience with system administration of a DevSecOps platform including CI/CD (Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub Actions), Git (Bitbucket, GitHub, Gitlab), Atlassian Suite, and security (Checkmarx, SonarQube, Black Duck)
• 4+ years of combined experience with Ansible automation and Jira/Confluence administration using Ansible.
• 2+ years of experience in on-call operation support role for a mission critical system
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Strong experience with Ansible Automation and authoring playbooks and roles for installing, maintaining, or upgrading platforms
• Hands-on experience administrating/maintaining DevSecOps platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jira or Confluence)
• Hands-on experience administrating Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), associated plugins, and integration
• Experience creating complex Jira workflows, projects, service desk, custom configurations, notifications, etc.
• Solid experience using version control software such as Git including peer reviewing playbooks
• Solid experience triaging and monitoring complex issues, outages, and incidents as part of on-call support rotation
• Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Shell, or Python
• Experience analyzing, researching, maintaining, and integrating 3rd party tool and plugins
• Basic Linux skills supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Basic networking skills

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Experience administrating Checkmarx or other comparable Windows based tool.
• Basic Windows server administration skills supporting applications on Windows Server 2022
• Basic SQL skills (e.g., data manipulation, removing duplicate records)
• Experience administrating an artifact repository (Nexus, NXRM, JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact), and software quality scanning tools (SonarQube, Black Duck)
• Atlassian Suite administration certifications
• AWS cloud certifications
• Experience with AWS administration (EC2, S3, ELB, EBS/EFS/S3)
• Experience with PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams and contribute to our communities. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it. Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find your passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status.  We are excited for you to take your place in our Leidos Family.

Are you an US citizen, US resident, or Visa candidate and think you might fit? We recommend you apply and start the conversation today! Join us in supporting our SSA contracts in Woodlawn, Maryland.

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: 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.