DevOps Engineer

Description

• Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.
• Work with world leading technology business at the forefront of innovation.
• We're a 'Family Friendly' certified workplace – we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2,000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2,000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

As a valued member of our engineering team, you will contribute to the delivery of secure, reliable, and highly automated software platforms that support complex and mission‑critical systems. You will be involved across the DevOps and DevSecOps lifecycle, including environment provisioning, CI/CD pipeline development, deployment, and operational support. Working closely with software engineers, system engineers, security specialists, and operations teams, you will apply modern DevOps practices and tooling to enable repeatable, auditable, and resilient delivery of software and infrastructure. You will routinely apply a broad range of automation technologies and explore improved approaches to platform engineering and operational efficiency. You will be an established DevOps Engineer with hands‑on experience in CI/CD tooling, infrastructure automation, secure deployment practices, and operational monitoring within enterprise or regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Prototype and evaluate DevOps automation, tooling, and platform solutions.
• Design, implement, and support DevOps/DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security scanning, and deployment.
• Provision and manage infrastructure and environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC).
• Automate deployments and manage platform operations across development, test, and production environments.
• Integrate security, monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to ensure platform reliability and operational visibility.
• Support continuous improvement through tool customisation, operational support, incident remediation, and adherence to engineering and security standards.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience and training.
• Proven experience in DevOps or DevSecOps engineering roles.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation tooling.
• Experience supporting deployments, operational platforms, and secure development/deployment practices.
• Familiarity with Agile or Kanban delivery methodologies and collaborative multidisciplinary team environments.
• Exposure to containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and tools such as JIRA and Confluence.

Employment Benefits

Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It’s about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups. Our five Advocacy Groups provide opportunities for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests and support our diverse community.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.