The U.S. Navy’s Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) program has an opening for a Site Reliability Automation and Orchestration Engineer on a high-visibility DoD program that provides engineering support to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), the largest information technology (IT) network in the world.  This position will provide many opportunities to challenge and grow your skills.

This person should be a seasoned, self-motivated, professional with hands-on engineering and testing experience in virtualized or on-prem environments. A skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, orchestrating network operations and DevOps pipelines, automating and orchestrating operations, scaling releases, and day-to-day system operations in commercial cloud and on-prem environments.

Primary Responsibilities:

Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include site reliability engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer

SRE Engineering and Integration:

• Automate routine tasks and software updates, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedure
• Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilities
• Develop Ansible playbook design, role development, and testing, in non-production environments, as well as migration to production networks

Release Management:

• Participate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policies
• Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule
• Conduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies

Training & Knowledge Transfer

• Develop, document, and maintain work instruction materials for related Automation and Orchestration processes
• Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced

Required Qualifications

• BS and 4 to 8 years of hands-on site reliability engineering automation, ideally with federal government; add'l experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)
• Experience working in a DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CICD), and Agile environments using code delivery mechanisms, continuous build systems, code repositories, and continuous delivery solutions
• Secret Clearance
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel).
• Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred
• Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
• Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with chaos engineering practices and tools such as Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, or similar frameworks.
• Good command of Linux/Unix and command line knowledge
• Experience in application administration, configuration, and integration
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment
• Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to grow that knowledge
• Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).
• Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations
• Experience administrating/maintaining SRE platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins)
• Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python
• Integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab.
• Experience with PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers
• Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure.
• Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA STIGs

Preferred Qualifications

A highly qualified candidate will also have:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments.
• ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience

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Original Posting:

February 13, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00

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.