Senior DevSecOps Software Developer
00100 LEIDOS, INC. · 3025 Gaithersburg, MD
$107,900–$195,050from the description
Jun 30, 2026
3025 Gaithersburg, MD
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level role building and maintaining the DevSecOps platform for a safety-critical oceanic air traffic control system. Day-to-day work centers on CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, automated security testing, and shared developer tooling, with an emerging focus on applying AI/ML to improve pipeline efficiency and reliability. Suits an experienced platform or DevSecOps engineer comfortable in regulated, federal environments.
Senior level · 9+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 85 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 50–130
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (13)
The title 'Lead DevSecOps Software Developer' carries no standard seniority level word (Junior/Senior/Staff/etc.), so the title states no level; however, the 9+ years requirement and scope of enterprise-wide platform ownership support a Senior classification.
Two work locations are listed — Gaithersburg, MD and Egg Harbor Township, NJ (Atlantic City metro). The DC/MD metro is listed first and is the larger market; the NJ location falls under the Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ CBSA (12100). The role is hybrid (3 days onsite), not fully remote.
A Bachelor's degree is listed in the requirements section but explicitly allows 'or equivalent experience,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
The role requires the ability to obtain a Public Trust investigation (not a formal security clearance), so the clearance requirement is None.
U.S. citizenship is a hard gate stated in the requirements section.
Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions are listed as interchangeable examples under a single 'CI/CD tools such as' requirement — emitted as one skill with alternatives.
AWS is listed as a required cloud platform example ('such as AWS'); Azure and GCP are populated as well-known substitutes.
Python and Bash are listed as interchangeable scripting/programming options — emitted as one skill with Bash as an alternative.
SAST, DAST, container scanning, and dependency scanning are all listed under the required security tools experience; SAST and DAST are emitted as separate named skills; container/dependency scanning are subsumed under the broader security tooling requirement.
Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack appear only under Preferred qualifications as observability/monitoring examples — emitted as a single preferred skill with alternatives.
NIST RMF, NIST 800-53, and CIS benchmarks are listed as interchangeable federal security framework examples under Preferred — emitted as one preferred skill with alternatives.
The alternative occupation code 15-1244 is noted as a runner-up because the role has significant infrastructure operations and platform administration responsibilities, but the primary emphasis on building pipelines, automation frameworks, and IaC code makes 15-1252 the stronger fit.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): secrets management.
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