Junior DevOps Engineer

Junior DevOps Engineer

Who We Are:
Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities.

Minimum Requirements:

• US Citizenship with TS/SCI and Counter-Intelligence Polygraph clearance
• 1–3 years of experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Support
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• Familiarity with Linux system administration
• Experience with Docker or containerized applications
• Basic experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD
• Exposure to infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc.)
• Experience troubleshooting deployment or environment issues
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and system troubleshooting
• Ability to work within an Agile Scrum team
• Self-starter requiring moderate supervision
• Intelligent, proactive, and driven to achieve results

Specific Duties:

• Support deployment and maintenance of development and production environments
• Assist with CI/CD pipeline implementation and troubleshooting
• Monitor system health, logging, and alerting platforms
• Support container orchestration and infrastructure automation efforts
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment-related issues
• Assist with onboarding users and environment access requests
• Document operational procedures and deployment processes
• Work closely with software developers to improve deployment reliability

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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