Platform Engineer: Cloud, DevOps & Automation

Leidos; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility

Wellbeing programs

Learning opportunities

Impactful projects

Career development

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and evolve cloud and hybrid platforms underpinning critical applications. You’ll work across cloud, automation and security to enable teams to deliver reliable software with confidence.

You will collaborate with developers, architects and security specialists, applying IaC, CI/CD, scripting and best practices to improve deployment efficiency and platform resilience. Applicants must be Australian citizens with NV-1 clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure administration or related discipline.
• Hands-on with public cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP or similar).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Scripting/automation with Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar.
• Knowledge of OS, networking, APIs, databases, storage, DNS and enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, observability, Git and version control.
• Understanding of security principles, IAM, secrets management, compliance, and platform security controls.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; good stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and support cloud and hybrid platforms for secure, reliable, scalable apps.
• Drive automation across infrastructure and app delivery using IaC, CI/CD, scripting and deployment tooling.
• Enhance platform reliability, performance and security through monitoring, remediation and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, cybersecurity, infra teams and stakeholders to improve platform capabilities.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Cloud engineering

Infrastructure automation

Scripting

Containers/Kubernetes

Monitoring/Observability

Security basics

Education

Degree or relevant certification

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and evolve cloud and hybrid platforms underpinning critical applications. You’ll work across cloud, automation and security to enable teams to deliver reliable software with confidence.

You will collaborate with developers, architects and security specialists, applying IaC, CI/CD, scripting and best practices to improve deployment efficiency and platform resilience. Applicants must be Australian citizens with NV-1 clearance.