DevSecOps Engineer

Are you ready to thrive? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

Join Leidos’ all-star team supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Enterprise Digital Modernization Accelerator initiative. This program is at the forefront of deploying enterprise-scale AI, data, and mission platform capabilities across cloud, edge, and classified environments. We are looking for creative, driven, and mission-focused professionals ready to take their career to the next level.

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will:

• Support the development of secure CI/CD implementation, compliance automation, software supply chain integrity, and deployment security.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of analysts, engineers, and developers to solve complex challenges and deliver innovative, production-ready algorithms and platforms.

• Contribute to the integration of software development, AI, DevSecOps, data engineering, platform engineering, cybersecurity, and observability in a fast-paced, engineering-centric environment.

• Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including remote and on-site work in the National Capital Region (Rockville, MD and/or Alexandria, VA).

What You Bring:

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 8+ years in software development, system engineering or related field. 6+ years of experience with Master’s degree. Relevant /additional experience may be substituted for a degree.

• Experience in software engineering, data science, analytics, or quantitative intelligence analysis, developing analytics and AI/ML solutions and demonstrating progressive technical development and outcomes. (4+ years with a Master’s).

• Active Top Secret clearance and eligibility for TS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Demonstrated ability to participate in cross-functional planning, coordination, and task execution

• Track record of creative problem solving, active learning, and mission-focused outcomes.

• Experience with the following:

  • CI/CD automation

  • Container security

  • Security scanning

  • SBOM generation

  • Automated compliance pipelines

  • Kubernetes hardening

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting military or intelligence community customers.

• Familiarity with Azure/C2S, hardware platforms (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs), and advanced analytical methodologies (social network analysis, supply chain analysis, NLP, classification algorithms, image processing).

• Familiarity using git, svn, JIRA, or other version control technologies

• Familiarity with the following technologies

  • GitLab CI/CD

  • Trivy

  • Grype

  • Semgrep

  • Cosign

  • OpenSCAP

  • Azure TS network

  • ATO package

  • Kubernetes

  • ArgoCD

  • OpenShify

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Original Posting:

June 25, 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.