DevOps Platform Engineer

Leidos Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra annual leave via Life Days

World‑leading technology company

Family Friendly certified workplace

Job summary

Leidos Australia invites applications for multiple roles in its Mission Software Solution team in Melbourne. You will support, enhance and automate platform services used by development teams to build, deploy and operate secure applications across shared environments.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes management with Rancher, CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, automation with Ansible, Linux server administration and DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes environments, including Rancher or similar tooling.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support shared Kubernetes environments, using Rancher to monitor workloads 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 administration

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

Ansible

Scripting

Helm charts

DevSecOps

Certificate management

Tools

Rancher

Jenkins

Ansible

Helm

Job description

Benefits

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

About the Company

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

We have multiple opportunities to join our multi‑year program in the Mission Software Solution team that works closely with our customer.

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.

Application is open to Australian citizens with a clear TSPV clearance and a successful OSA application.

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

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 (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.

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.