Mission-Critical Site Reliability Engineer

Leidos; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

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Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, operate and support mission-critical platforms for Defence, Intelligence and Government sectors. You will ensure reliability, performance and resilience in highly regulated environments, working across Level 2/3 incident response, monitoring, and automation initiatives.

The role offers impactful, federally-relevant work with strong development and platform collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Engineer or in a comparable infrastructure-focused role.
• Experience in Linux/UNIX administration, including troubleshooting, performance analysis and operational support within enterprise environments.
• Capability in developing automation using Python, Go, Bash or similar scripting languages to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Experience implementing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code and configuration management solutions using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and observability practices, with the ability to use service metrics and operational data to improve reliability and performance.
• Experience supporting virtualised and/or cloud-based environments, including technologies such as VMware, AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar platforms.
• Ability to investigate complex incidents, contribute to root cause analysis and implement sustainable corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Support the availability, capacity and reliability of complex production environments, applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operational challenges.
• Provide Level 2 and Level 3 operational support, leading incident response activities, contributing to root cause analysis, and implementing preventative improvements that enhance system resilience.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting and logging capabilities, using meaningful service metrics, SLOs and SLIs to drive performance insights and continuous improvement.
• Enhance automation, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices across the environment, partnering with development and platform teams to enable consistent, secure and reliable deployments.

Skills

Linux/UNIX administration

Monitoring & observability

Incident response & RCA

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Jenkins

GitLab CI

VMware

AWS

Azure

GCP

Bash scripting

Python

Go

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, operate and support mission-critical platforms for Defence, Intelligence and Government sectors. You will ensure reliability, performance and resilience in highly regulated environments, working across Level 2/3 incident response, monitoring, and automation initiatives.

The role offers impactful, federally-relevant work with strong development and platform collaboration.