DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering Intern

About

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

Key Responsibilities

The Dev Ops Engineer Intern will help support and enable 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.

You will continually evaluate and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Ongoing studies within a Bachelor’s program in Computer Science or similar field with a minimum 3.0 GPA.
• Familiarity with Agile and Dev Sec Ops concepts and best practices.
• Fundamental background with software design patterns and programming languages.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Self‑starter who can work independently while possessing the communication skills to work effectively with software development teams and customers.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to obtain U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS).
• Experience provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.).
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Experience with Git Ops tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies.
• Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar.

About Leidos

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.

Pay Range

Pay Range $48,100.00 - $86,950.00. 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.

Pay And Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at