Data Driven Software Engineer

Description

The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector seeks a Data Software Engineer with Elastic and Kafka experience to support the Innovations Group on our GSM-O II Program as a member of End to End Visualization Team. The Leidos Digital Modernization Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world's toughest security challenges for customers with can't fail" missions.

Candidate must be within driving distance of Fort Meade or Scott AFB. At a minimum, a Secret clearance is required upon the start of employment, and within 14 days following the start date the employee must obtain their Security + certification.

As a key End to End Visualization team member, you will work as part of a fast paced, Agile development and implementation team to architect, design and develop data integration solutions (Extract, Transform, Load) to support a unified User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI) that provides a holistic single-pane-of-glass interface for an integrated solution on the Elastic platform. You will also work with operational end users and support teams to perform requirements analysis, as well as design, develop and demonstrate mockups and wireframes.

Primary Responsibilities

The successful candidate primary responsibility will:

• Researching, designing, developing and user-testing experiences and making strategic user-experience decisions while working closely with product owners, engineers and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
• Create Kafka, Elastic, Logstash data pipelines and support Kibana visualizations and dashboards using React, JavaScript and HTML.
• Design, develop, document, test and deploy applications and prototypes in JavaScript, HTML and CSS on the Elastic platform.
• Integrating ETL components with CI/CD build/deployment pipelines that use Cloudbees/Jenkins, Artifactory, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Docker and Bitbucket.
• Designing, development, documenting, testing and deploying applications.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a relevant technical discipline and 8+ year of related experience obtained through any combination of coursework and internships.
• Must have a DoD Secret security clearance prior to start date.
• Ability to obtain Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 14 days of start date.
• Must be able to commute to Scott AFB, IL, Ft. Meade, MD two/three times per week for on-site support.
• Software development experience with Python, Java and SQL. Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.
• Experience with distributed version control software such as Git and Bitbucket.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of Software Engineering.
• Experience developing software on a UNIX command line platform.
• Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team.
• 6+ years of demonstrable experience designing, developing and deploying dashboards and reports using the Elastic stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats.
• Experience in architecture, design, develop, and delivery of data driven operations capabilities, within a DoD environment.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence to document requirements, acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Experience working with a highly technical team and in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers, and architects.
• Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with and convey focused messages to stakeholders, customers, domain experts, program managers and teammates.

Preferred Qualifications

• ETL Kafka/Elastic/Kibana Engineer.
• Experience with Kafka connector integrations, custom connector development and an understanding of core concepts and working experience with ksqlDB and Kafka Streams
• Experience developing Kafka system integrations between Elasticsearch/Logstash and other systems.
• Experience with data Visualization and dashboards
• Knowledge with Elastic stack security features, such as client authentication, SSL/TLS configuration, and role-based document filtering.
• Software design and development experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JSON/REST APIs in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus).
• Experience developing, building and deploying software using Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools).
• Experience with big data applications.
• Experience with cloud-based AWS services.
• Experience designing, developing and deploying solutions using DevOps/DevSecOps concepts.
• Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards.
• Experience or familiarity with Agile development and testing methodology
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.
• Experience with big data applications
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD implementation
• Understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations

Come break things (in a good way). Then build them smarter.

We're the tech company everyone calls when things get weird. We don't wear capes (they're a safety hazard), but we do solve high-stakes problems with code, caffeine, and a healthy disregard for how it's always been done."

Original Posting:
August 4, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:
Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

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.