[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @Leidos

Role Description

The UK National Security, Defence and Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a DevOps Engineer to work remotely. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience supporting the Metropolitan Police mission. In this role, you will support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud-based platforms and delivery pipelines. You will work closely with engineering and platform teams to automate infrastructure, enhance CI/CD processes, and maintain reliable, scalable environments.

This position is hands-on and requires strong technical capability across cloud platforms, automation, and containerised environments.

Your Role and Primary Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and YAML configurations
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Deploy, manage, and support Azure services across IaaS and PaaS environments
• Automate routine operational and deployment tasks
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure, applications, and deployment pipelines
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications running in Kubernetes environments
• Use kubectl commands to manage deployments, pods, services, and namespaces
• Investigate issues using logs, exec, and describe commands
• Perform rollouts, restarts, and scaling activities
• Work with containerised applications (Docker or similar)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes
• Contribute to platform stability, performance, and security
• Support technical documentation (runbooks, deployment guides)
• Contribute to well-structured release notes

Qualifications

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience
• CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins)
• Terraform experience
• YAML proficiency
• Kubernetes experience
• Strong use of kubectl commands
• Containerisation experience (Docker or similar)
• Scripting (PowerShell/Bash)
• Experience working with Jira in Agile environments

Requirements

• Confluence experience
• Azure Monitor / Log Analytics experience
• Cloud security and governance understanding
• CI/CD best practices knowledge
• FinOps awareness
• Experience in enterprise or government environments

Benefits

• 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)
• Flexi-Time

Company Description

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.