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Senior Systems Engineer
Senior Systems Engineer-December 2024
Columbia
Dec 24, 2025
ABOUT LEIDOS
Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security
501 - 1,000 employees
Consulting
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About Senior Systems Engineer

  Description

  Are you seeking a new and challenging position supporting a complex Program for the Warfighter, which implements the latest technology? Well, look no further! This is an exciting time to contribute to a mission-critical program with lasting impactful results. Leidos is currently looking to add a Senior Systems Engineer (SE-3) to a growing task! The Systems Engineer will act as a Release Manager on this Agile task. They will work collaboratively with the Leidos PMO, Scrum Master, Systems and Software Engineering team, Test team, Product Owners and external teams to ensure a successful project.

  Primary Responsibilities and Skills

  Demonstrate strong leadership and proactive work ethic to various ensure successful software release from Dev to Int to Prod based on an efficient, repeatable release process.

  Own the release process, collaborating with other leads and teams to drive timely software releases

  Manage software application releases to Prod

  Establish and maintain Release cadence and coordination activities across Product Teams

  Mentor Scrum Masters and teams

  Build and maintain Release, Sprint, and Deployment schedules, coordinating with appropriate contractor and customer stakeholders

  Capture and maintain key metrics related to software development, quality, and related artifacts

  Primary lead on implementing Agile practices in the context of the Portfolio

  Facilitate Integrated Release Planning, Release Scrums, Scrum of Scrums, and related ceremonies

  Clearly understand the dependencies and compatibilities across product releases and communicate major changes to project and product teams

  Ensure all required pieces of tasks/commits/components are included in releases and shipped to users on time

  Define detailed release schedules and requirements based on project and user needs

  Participate in sprint planning and scrums to track changes of timeline and communicate impacts to project and product teams

  Monitor the quality of releases, track bugs and schedule corresponding fixes with product teams

  Continually work to make the release processes better, faster, automated and set a solid foundation that evolves

  Ensure appropriate controls in the release and deployment processes

  Manage client and management expectations with respect to Release Management activities

  Basic Qualifications

  Twenty (20) years of experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree. Experience leading a team that implements agile scrum methodology for software development.

  Highly effective time management skills with the ability to prioritize and remain flexible in a dynamic environment

  Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

  Demonstrated leadership

  Proactive, self-starter

  Persistent and diligent in closing actions and coordinating with others

  Excellent organization and planning

  Clear verbal and written communication

  Experience with Jira, Confluence, etc.

  Solid understanding of Agile methodology

  Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

  Demonstrated skills in delivering technology to production across multiple teams in an agile framework

  Preferred Qualifications

  Experience with process improvement & automation

  Familiarity with DevOps

  Familiarity Continuous Integration principles

  Familiarity with AWS

  Pay Range:

  Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00

  The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

  Original Posting Date:

  01/24/2024

  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.

  REQNUMBER: R-00127286

  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.

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