DevSecOps Lead

DevSecOps Lead

Job Overview

Leidos is seeking a DevSecOps Lead to lead and further mature platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), and application security functions within a large-scale software development and IT operations program.

Responsibilities

• Direct the design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning, and monitoring processes across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead efforts to standardize and optimize platform engineering practices, adopting Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and microservices deployment models.
• Develop and enforce SRE principles, including release management, system reliability, observability, incident management, SLAs/SLOs, and fault tolerance.
• Implement monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify issues, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and drive service uptime objectives.
• Integrate security throughout the SDLC, ensuring robust code review, vulnerability scanning, and threat modeling within automated pipelines.
• Collaborate with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and achieve compliance with industry and federal standards (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST).

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor and lead a multidisciplinary team, promoting an agile, collaborative, and innovative work environment.
• Partner with development, security, and other stakeholders to maintain an automation-first culture and introduce best practices for reliability, security, and DevOps maturity.

Location

This position may be remote, though periodic visits to customer sites or the Program Office (within Washington, DC region) are required.