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Site Reliability Engineer

Leidos · Columbus, OH · posted 2 days ago

In short: Site Reliability Engineer at Leidos in Columbus, OH, posted 2 days ago.

By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 08/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.

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The job

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EmployerLeidos
LocationColumbus, Ohio
FieldTechnology › Cloud, IT and infrastructure
LevelMid Level
Source categoryScience and Engineering
Posted2026-11-06 (2 days ago)
Work arrangementOn-site at the location listed
PayNot published in the source listing

Job description

Description

Who We Are:

Kudu Dynamics is a 100% employee-owned company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers, engineers, makers, and shakers brings deep experience across research, development, deployment, and operations.

Kudu Dynamics is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow's threats and build the next generation of capabilities.

When you come in for your interview, you'll see that Kudu is an amazing place to work, where you'll be surrounded by experts who are ready to teach and learn. Our team has flexible work hours and work-from-home options. When we do work from the offices, we enjoy home-roasted coffee and award-winning workspaces.

Job Description:

Hello! We're a small team in a fun company looking for someone to come in and help us build systems that stay reliable when things get complicated.

We need a Site Reliability Engineer who has experience building, deploying, automating, and operating complex compute platforms. You'll work across infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, distributed storage, observability, security, and deployment automation, with a particular emphasis on creating systems that are reproducible, maintainable, resilient, and easy to operate.

A major part of this role will involve Nix and NixOS. We want someone who appreciates declarative systems, reproducible environments, infrastructure-as-code, and reducing configuration drift. You may be building NixOS-based servers, improving deployment pipelines, developing reusable Nix modules, debugging distributed systems, or making sure a platform can be rebuilt predictably from scratch.

Critical components of the environment may include high-performance compute, distributed Linux file systems, network design, security-in-depth, ML/AI infrastructure, high-bandwidth data processing, cloud deployment, and fielded systems.

You don't need to be an expert at everything. Whatever part you bite off, though, will be yours to own. This is a great opportunity to apply deep systems expertise while learning adjacent areas.

Our team needs your help making sure our customers are repeatedly provided with operational insights from a multi-domain data environment-and that the infrastructure producing those insights is dependable, observable, reproducible, and recoverable.

These Are the Things You'll Get to Do:

• Own the reliability and operation of critical compute and data platforms.

• Design, deploy, and maintain Linux infrastructure, including NixOS-based systems.

• Build reproducible system configurations and deployment workflows using Nix and infrastructure-as-code.

• Develop reusable NixOS modules, packages, flakes, and system configurations.

• Improve platform resilience, fault tolerance, recoverability, and maintainability.

• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities that help us understand system behavior before customers notice problems.

• Diagnose difficult failures across Linux, networking, storage, containers, and distributed systems.

• Automate repetitive operational tasks and eliminate configuration drift.

• Design and build security and maintainability components for deployed systems.

• Help define operational standards, deployment practices, upgrade strategies, and disaster-recovery procedures.

• Perform capacity planning and identify performance bottlenecks across compute, storage, and networking.

• Own solutions spanning CNO, analytics, security, infrastructure, and field deployments.

• Learn new skills and teach the rest of us what you know.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Enthusiasm for learning new stuff.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or amazing equivalent skills.

• Strong experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems.

• Experience with Linux networking, storage, and file systems.

• Experience automating system configuration and deployment.

• Experience with Nix and/or NixOS in production, lab, or significant personal environments.

• Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting/programming experience of 2+ years.

• Ability to debug complex systems methodically across multiple layers of the stack.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

• Deep experience with NixOS, including custom modules, overlays, flakes, packaging, and reproducible deployments.

• Experience operating fleets of Linux systems.

• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Nix, Terraform, Ansible, or similar tooling.

• Experience designing highly available or fault-tolerant systems.

• Monitoring and observability experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch, or similar systems.

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.

Original Posting:
August 14, 2026

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 $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

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.

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

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos' name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system - never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.

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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About the role

This is a Mid Level role in the Technology field (Cloud, IT and infrastructure) at Leidos. Mid-level roles usually expect some years of relevant experience and the ability to work with limited supervision.

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Estimate for a wage earner: 2026 federal brackets and standard deduction (IRS), Social Security 6.2% up to $184,500, Medicare 1.45% (+0.9% above $200,000 single / $250,000 married), and a state rate you set; set your own state tax rate. It ignores credits, pre-tax deductions, local taxes and benefits. Sources: IRS: tax year 2026 inflation adjustments · SSA wage base per Federal Register notice 2025-19763.

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The city

The job is in Columbus, OH. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Columbus compares. Among the 100 largest places in Ohio, Columbus is #1 by population, #92 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #12 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #81 for rent (#1 = cheapest). Its county, Franklin County, is #4 of 88 counties for average pay ($73,180).

The place in numbers

Columbus has 914,802 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 7.7% of the population of Ohio. It covers 222 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 4,129 people per square mile. The median age is 33.2, 16% younger than the state median (33.2 against 39.7).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,295 a month (rent plus utilities), 25% above the state median ($1,295 against $1,034). Over a year that is 23.5% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $252,900, which is 3.8 times the median household income ($66,082); a ratio under 4 usually means ownership is within reach for many households. 44.1% of households own their home, 34% below the state average (44.1% against 67.2%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Columbus, OH metropolitan area has 1,105,580 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $51,340 a year, about the same as the national median ($51,340 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (121,850 jobs, median $47,890); transportation and material moving (118,690 jobs, median $43,980); food preparation and serving related (95,180 jobs, median $33,540). The area is most specialised in transportation and material moving (1.2 times) and healthcare practitioners and technical (1.2 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($111,840) and computer and mathematical ($104,470). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Franklin County was 3.4%. 70.0% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Franklin County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 67.7% drive alone, 1.9% use public transit, 2.5% walk, 18.3% work from home. 6.1% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 43% below the state average (6.1% against 10.8%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

38.2% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 21% above the state share (38.2% against 31.5%). 15.0% of residents were born outside the United States, 187% above the state share (15.0% against 5.2%). The poverty rate is 18.1%, 36% above the state rate (18.1% against 13.3%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 74°F (23.4°C), and the coolest is Jan at 27°F (-2.6°C). About 985 mm (39 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; May is the wettest month (105 mm) and Feb the driest (62 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Whitehall (5 miles, rent 12% lower); Upper Arlington (5 miles, rent 23% higher); Gahanna (7 miles, rent 13% higher); Grove City (9 miles, similar rent). Rent differences are against Columbus; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Columbus, OH that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅Distance from the job city ⇅Median rent ⇅Median home value ⇅Median household income ⇅Commute 45+ min ⇅Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅Open jobs there ⇅
Columbus, OH0 mi$1,295$252,900$66,0826.1%n/aJobs
Whitehall, OH5 mi$1,145$159,600$51,7594.9%n/a—
Upper Arlington, OH5 mi$1,588$595,600$155,1674.5%n/a—
Gahanna, OH7 mi$1,466$350,900$109,0613.0%n/a—
Grove City, OH9 mi$1,331$310,400$93,1614.3%n/a—
Hilliard, OH10 mi$1,632$385,100$128,1895.1%n/a—
Westerville, OH10 mi$1,364$374,500$109,4044.8%n/a—
Reynoldsburg, OH10 mi$1,259$244,300$72,9727.9%n/a—
Dublin, OH12 mi$1,686$563,500$160,2966.9%n/a—
Pickerington, OH13 mi$1,605$339,600$111,83312.2%n/a—
Delaware, OH21 mi$1,286$318,400$99,78614.3%n/aJobs
Marysville, OH26 mi$1,223$300,800$92,61911.2%n/a—
Lancaster, OH27 mi$1,083$193,900$59,13320.8%n/a—
Newark, OH30 mi$973$192,300$61,67015.1%n/a—
Marion, OH43 mi$856$119,500$47,95114.1%n/a—
Springfield, OH43 mi$851$116,800$47,14311.8%n/a—
Chillicothe, OH44 mi$887$162,500$54,08617.3%n/a—

Career paths

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Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

How far Columbus, OH is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.

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From ⇅Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅Population of that city ⇅
Columbus, OH0 mi914,802
Indianapolis, IN168 mi885,860
Chicago, IL277 mi2,711,226
Charlotte, NC350 mi903,844
Philadelphia, PA415 mi1,579,706
New York, NY479 mi8,483,844
Jacksonville, FL671 mi977,670
Oklahoma City, OK852 mi697,125
Dallas, TX912 mi1,307,930
Fort Worth, TX939 mi963,194
Houston, TX993 mi2,328,253
Austin, TX1,067 mi979,539
San Antonio, TX1,140 mi1,479,835
Denver, CO1,158 mi718,877
Phoenix, AZ1,662 mi1,642,323
San Diego, CA1,950 mi1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA1,984 mi3,857,263
Seattle, WA2,009 mi754,195
San Jose, CA2,087 mi990,138
San Francisco, CA2,142 mi830,235

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅Straight-line distance ⇅Open jobs ⇅
Akron, OH108 mi7

The employer

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Company description (from The Muse): Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.

size: Large Size; industries: Information Technology; locations on The Muse: Reston, VA.

It is among the 200 largest US-headquartered employers in our list, with about 47,000 employees worldwide (year not stated). Company page with headquarters, state economy and official links →

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