Agile / DevOps Coach

Description

We are seeking an experienced Agile / DevOps Coach to help our software engineering teams towards software engineering excellence in process, tools, and skills. This role is focused on improving flow, delivery reliability, and engineering effectiveness through modern Agile, Lean, and DevOps practices-not implementing frameworks for their own sake.

You will work closely with engineering teams, product leaders, and platform groups to strengthen continuous delivery fundamentals, reduce friction in the delivery system, and enable teams to ship software safely, frequently, and sustainably. You will problem solve ways to help teams improve their delivery through improvements to practice, tools, software, architecture, and platforms, taking a coaching mindset to enable teams to own their future.

This is a hands-on, pragmatic role measured by real improvements in speed, quality, and team autonomy.

Key Responsibilities
Improve Flow & Delivery Outcomes
*Identify and remove constraints across the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle (idea to production).
*Apply Lean principles to improve flow, including reducing batch sizes, limiting work in progress, and accelerating feedback loops.
*Help teams establish a reliable path to production with small, frequent changes and fast recovery from failure.
*Improve delivery performance across lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and time to restore service.
Coach Teams on Modern Engineering Practices
*Coach teams on practical Agile and DevOps engineering practices that enable continuous delivery (CI, automated testing, trunk-based development, deployment automation, observability).
*Reinforce engineering discipline over process compliance.
*Facilitate working sessions such as flow reviews, value stream mapping, and retrospectives focused on systemic improvement.
*Help teams build confidence in their ability to release software at any time.

Enable Sustainable Continuous Delivery
*Support teams in decoupling deployment from release through feature flags, progressive delivery, and rollback strategies.
*Promote architectures and practices that reduce coupling, risk, and coordination overhead.
*Partner with platform, security, and operations teams to embed quality, security, and reliability into the delivery pipeline.
*Improve developer experience by reducing friction, manual steps, and hidden queues.
Influence Leaders and the System
*Coach leaders to shift from project-centric delivery to product and flow-oriented thinking.
*Introduce metrics that reflect real delivery health and flow efficiency, and help leaders use them as learning tools rather than performance weapons.
*Help evolve governance and planning practices to support fast feedback and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications
*Bachelors and 12+ years working with software engineering teams in Agile, Lean, or DevOps environments.
*Proven experience improving software delivery performance, not just Agile process adoption.
*Deep understanding of flow-based delivery, Lean systems thinking, and continuous delivery principles.
*Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern DevOps tooling, and cloud-native delivery practices.
*Ability to influence engineers, product leaders, and executives with credibility and empathy.

Preferred
*Background as a software engineer, platform engineer, or SRE.
*Experience coaching teams toward high-performing delivery metrics (e.g., frequent releases, low failure rates, fast recovery).
*Familiarity with research on high-performing technology organizations and modern platform engineering models.
*Experience working in complex or regulated environments.
*Past or current Agile certifications like SAFe, ScrumMaster or similar

What Success Looks Like
*Teams can deploy changes safely and frequently with minimal ceremony.
*Lead time and delivery risk are reduced through strong engineering fundamentals.
*Quality, security, and reliability are built into the delivery system-not bolted on.
*Engineers spend more time delivering value and less time navigating process and friction.
*Agile and DevOps become invisible-simply how work flows.

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."

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.

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.

About Leidos

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 www.Leidos.com.

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 www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

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If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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