Platform DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes, CI/CD & Automation

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

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.