DevOps Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & CI/CD Automation

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

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.