DevOps Engineering Intern

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Job Description:

Leidos is seeking a DevOps Engineering Intern in Newport News, VA.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Leidos is seeking a DevOps Engineering Intern in the Newport News, VA Software Factory for the Summer of 2022.

Come put your product skills into action! The Leidos Software Factory has openings for talented interns to come work in one of our state of the art facility in Newport News, VA. During your internship, you will support the continuous integration and continuous delivery of our diverse suite of software products by applying best practices for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and automated software deployments. You will leverage open-source and fit-for-purpose tools to manage private and public cloud infrastructures via code, designing reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly-available, secure architectures for cloud-based applications.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Design and develop mission critical cloud system architectures
•Support the packaging and deployment of releases
•Participate in the full software development lifecycle, working within broadly defined parameters
•Use Agile development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and GitLab to manage work and collaborate with your teams
•Support creation and updating of relevant documentation for design, development and testing
•Identify potential roadblocks and develop around them
•Plan and estimate development tasks and work to improve performance metrics
•Develop maintainable code that matches specification
•Develop automated tests leveraging a continuous integration process
•Work closely with other engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
•Actively pursuing a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with a 3.0 GPA
•Familiarity with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices
•Fundamental background with software design patterns and programming languages
•Excellent problem solving and analysis skills, including the ability to logically create structure and order from unstructured inputs
•Self-starter that is able to work independently while possessing the communication skills to work collaboratively with software development teams and external customers
•Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
•Must be able to relocate to the Newport News, VA area for the Summer of 2022
•Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret Security Clearance.
•U.S. Citizenship is required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
•Familiarity with containers and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
•Familiarity with version control systems such as Git
•Familiarity with different operating systems, network administration, networking procolos
•Familiarity with Infrastructure as a Service/Infrastructure as Code
•Experience working collaboratively in team environments
•Local candidates preferred however potential telecommuting may be acceptable

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