DevOps Platform Engineer

Leidos LLC; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Days

Health & Wellness programs

Paid Leave

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to support and automate platform services used by development teams to build, deploy and operate secure applications across shared environments. You will maintain customer environments and support new environments as they are built.

You’ll manage Kubernetes with Rancher, develop robust CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, and automate configuration with Ansible and scripting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes environments, including Rancher or similar platform management tooling.
• Strong Linux administration experience across enterprise server environments.
• Experience building, maintaining or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, particularly using Jenkins.
• Practical experience with automation and configuration management, including Ansible and scripting.
• Understanding of containerised application delivery, Helm charts and Kubernetes deployment patterns.
• Experience with certificate management, access controls and secure platform practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and prioritisation skills across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Support, enhance and automate platform services used by development teams to build, deploy and operate secure applications across shared environments.
• Maintain and support shared Kubernetes environments, using Rancher to monitor workloads, deployments and platform health.
• Develop, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on reliable build, test and deployment outcomes using Jenkins.
• Automate platform configuration, deployment and operational tasks using Ansible, scripting and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Administer and maintain Linux server environments, including upgrades, patching, troubleshooting and performance monitoring.
• Support secure platform operations, including certificate management, access controls, deployment standards and DevSecOps practices.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, pipeline and environment issues in collaboration with development and QA teams.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of platform reliability, automation, documentation and engineering practices.

Skills

Kubernetes

Rancher

Linux admin

Jenkins CI

Ansible

Scripting

Helm charts

DevSecOps

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Jenkins

Helm

Kubernetes tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Job 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. Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers Do Work That Matters Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 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

• In this role, you will support, enhance and automate the platform services used by development teams to build, deploy and operate secure applications across shared environments.
• You will also help maintain existing customer environments and support the delivery of new environments as they are built.
• Maintain and support shared Kubernetes environments, using Rancher to monitor workloads, deployments and platform health.
• Develop, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on reliable build, test and deployment outcomes using Jenkins.
• Automate platform configuration, deployment and operational tasks using Ansible, scripting and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Administer and maintain Linux server environments, including upgrades, patching, troubleshooting and performance monitoring.
• Support secure platform operations, including certificate management, access controls, deployment standards and DevSecOps practices.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, pipeline and environment issues in collaboration with development and QA teams.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of platform reliability, automation, documentation and engineering practices.

What You’ll Bring to Make An Impact

• Hands‑on experience supporting Kubernetes environments, including Rancher or similar platform management tooling.
• Strong Linux administration experience across enterprise server environments.
• Experience building, maintaining or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, particularly using Jenkins.
• Practical experience with automation and configuration management, including Ansible and scripting.
• Understanding of containerised application delivery, Helm charts and Kubernetes deployment patterns.
• Experience with certificate management, access controls and secure platform practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and prioritisation skills across distributed teams.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go. This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active TSPV Clearance, accompanied by the ability to be successful for an OSA.

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. PaulChase –ChiefExecutive,LeidosAustralia.

LeidosAustralia 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 (Women and Allies Network,Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Recruitment process - 1 virtual interview or 1 face to face, a psychometric test & background checks. Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1. We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team [e-mail] if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.

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: 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: 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.

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 $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

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Commitment and Diversity

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.