Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

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Description The Mission Driver Enablement Center (MDEC) Infrastructure Operations Team at Leidos has an opening for a Senior Platform DevOps Engineer to support our Enterprise IT Operations Center. This hands-on senior will serve as the team's Senior Engineer, guiding solution design, engineering decisions, and implementation across Red Hat OpenShift, Linux infrastructure, cloud services, and DevOps automation. The primary focus is the engineering, reliability, security, and lifecycle management of the OpenShift platform and supporting cloud infrastructure. The engineer will lead GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation initiatives while partnering with development teams to enable reliable containerized application deployments. Success requires infrastructure and platform depth, practical coding and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and the ability to translate requirements into maintainable solutions for internal and customer-facing environments. Primary Responsibilities Serves as the team's hands-on technical principal, establishes platform engineering standards, review designs and code, and guide technical decisions within approved architecture and security requirements. Mentor's engineers and coordinates technical dependencies across infrastructure, cloud, security, and development teams. Lead the design, configuration, integration, and lifecycle management of Red Hat OpenShift, including cluster upgrades, patching, monitoring, capacity planning, compliance management, and troubleshooting. Coordinate supporting Linux, compute, networking, and storage requirements with the responsible teams. Translate customer and operational requirements into system designs, implementation plans, and technical acceptance criteria. Evaluate alternatives for reliability, security, performance, supportability, cost, and risk; document decisions and validate solutions before production deployment. Lead GitOps adoption and continuous improvement, establishing repository structures, branching and peer-review practices, declarative configurations, controlled environment promotion, automated reconciliation, and rollback procedures consistent with security and operations requirements. Design, develop, review, and maintain reusable IaC and automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and routine operations. Establish testing, docu…