DevSecOps Engineer - Appcast Enterprise : Job Details

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DevSecOps Engineer (T4)

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.

Inspired to make a difference, we are committed to solving the world’s toughest problems.

Passionate about customer success by being determined to understand and respond to our customers’ needs as if they were our own.

United as a team, we are bound together by our conviction that ethics and integrity is core to how we operate.

Are you ready for your next challenge?

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.

Leidos has more than 30 years’ experience of developing and running some of the largest government systems in the world. We are currently hiring to expand our UK based technical team who support our delivery for the UK Govt.

Come join our team and further develop your skills as we deliver and support systems key to the defence of the UK and partner nations.

Being part of the Leidos team is a commitment to push yourself and those around you to do better, constantly adapt and learn new technologies. We’re a passionate team and are committed to developing and growing our staff.

Leidos is a global science and technology solutions leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defence, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 33,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

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 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 role 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. This role involves 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.

This is a fantastic role and a great career potential and opportunities within the same project that will mean something as it has a very real-world application that when the system goes into operation.

The DevSecOps Engineer will provide input and expertise to senior engineers to maintain alignments with best practices and recommending system improvements while overseeing the delivery including automated deployment, roll-back, monitoring of applications delivering into multiple development, test and production environments.

This individual is expected to create an environment for innovation and technical mentoring. You will be self-motivated and be able to work autonomously to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant results on project or operational deliverables, whilst also owning a variety of processes and activities ensuring compliance with project milestones and customer KPIs and SLAs. You must be an effective communicator, and comfortable directly engaging with customers and colleagues. You must also demonstrate an analytical and systematic approach to technical challenges.

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: