DevSecOps Engineer

2223 Chester House Farnborough Aerospace Centre Farnborough UK, United Kingdom

Location: Farnborough, UK (Hybrid Working Policy)

Clearance: High-level of security clearance (SC/ DV 'Developed Vetting')

UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundation of our Leidos culture is our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission.

Because of a key strategic development and a new exciting business opportunity, we have a requirement for a security-cleared, DevSecOps Engineer based in the UK working at our Farnborough site and remotely in a hybrid role. The system and role have a security focus and the candidate must have experience in working in secure environments, as well as interacting with keen customers.

As a result of some exciting programme wins, we currently have numerous permanent vacancies for security-cleared, DevSecOps Engineer(s) to aid in supporting development, transition & operation (inc capability upgrades) of a new IT infrastructure solution providing support to a critical operational end user.

This role will involve closely working with various internal and external teams/suppliers in large scale integrations to maintain, develop and support pipelines in a SAFe Agile methodology based primarily on AWS and VMware Cloud Foundation Clouds.

This 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.

This role involves automation and streamlining as well as pipelining COTS products using Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes among other components. The candidate will be involved in 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.

The successful individual will be responsible for:

• Support software deployments, cloud infrastructure baselines, and operational availability of production systems.

• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating and maintaining all components that comprise the DevSecOps environment.

• Support the Solution Architect(s) where required to ensure that proposed solutions requiring DevSecOps meet the requirement(s) and are compatible with the Engineering Baseline.

• Defining enterprise Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes and best practices.

• Codifying DevSecOps best practices for enterprise.

• Developing and maintaining scripts to automate tool deployment to AWS and VCF cloud environments and other tasks.

• Scripting and maintaining build environments.

• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the DevSecOps environment.

WHO DO WE NEED?

We are looking for someone with excellent organisation, communication and leadership skills who has:

• 2+ years’ experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• In-depth experience with and detailed knowledge of both waterfall and agile software development methodologies, particularly Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

• Understand DevSecOps tooling including Jira, Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab and other pipeline technologies such as Nexus, SonarQube, Artifactory.

• Experience with software engineering best practices for Java, Python and other languages.

• Experience of containerisation concepts and tools such as creating containers and Kubernetes (AWS EKS).

• Experience of system integration methodologies.

• Experience of API development and management, including rigorous test and assurance processes.

• Good general knowledge of Networking Technologies including load balancing and firewalls as well as AWS Security Groups, AWS ELB, AWS WAF.

• Excellent knowledge of Windows Server Environments, including OS build, AD, DNS, DHCP and GP from design to implementation and support.

• Excellent knowledge of Linux Environments including network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS).

• Good general knowledge of Microsoft Stack technologies such as MS SQL, MS System Centre, Office365, MS Exchange & CLI tooling such as PowerShell.

• Database technologies including MySQL, PostgreSQL and Cassandra.

• Experience with APIs and Data Distribution/networking Protocols.

• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills, taking ownership of complex incidents ensuring these are resolved to the satisfaction of the customer.

• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated experience in many of the following tools: Atlassian products, Jenkins Pipeline, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS.

• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications – AWS Cloud Practitioner.

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technical, or engineering discipline.

• AWS Certifications - AWS Professional DevOps Engineer.

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, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably.

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What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
• 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)

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.