Security Engineer

Leidos; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Paid Leave

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Security Engineer to implement and operate security capabilities across on‑prem and cloud environments for a Federal Government department. You will ensure systems are protected in line with ISM, PSPF, and regulatory controls.

The role emphasizes system hardening, continuous monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability management, collaborating with stakeholders to maintain secure, auditable environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Identity and Access Management (IdAM).
• Familiarity with Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA).
• Elasticsearch as an observability platform.

Responsibilities

• Implement and operate security capabilities across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Drive system hardening and continuous monitoring.
• Perform incident response and vulnerability management.
• Ensure integration with enterprise services and reporting of risk posture.

Skills

IdAM

ESA

Elasticsearch

Tools

Ansible

ServiceNow

Job description

We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.

Do Work That Matters

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

The Security Engineer is accountable for the implementation and operation of Leidos managed capabilities across a Federal Government Department that spans both on-prem and cloud environments. They will ensure that systems and platforms are protected in line with organisational and regulatory requirements.

The Security Engineering Team reports to the Leidos Security Lead and will collaborate with Department stakeholders to deploy and manage these capabilities. The Security Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that the deployed platforms are integrated with enterprise services and provide effective protections to the Department.

The Security Engineer will drive system hardening, continuous monitoring efforts and perform Incident Response (IR) activities. This involves analysis of security events, working with other teams to investigate alerts, identify root causes, tune protection capabilities and implement remediation actions. They will implement and operates vulnerability management capabilities across the environment, ensuring that systems and applications are assessed, monitored and protected against threats.

The role contributes to system assurance activities by maintaining vulnerability records, gathering technical artefacts, and reporting on risk posture in alignment with the ISM and PSPF.

This role requires strong experience in enterprise security operations and Federal Government environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Configuring Microsoft Windows systems, Linux systems and any Public Cloud tenancies.
• Deploying and maintaining security capabilities within an Australian Government environment.
• Vulnerability Management.
• Investigating security alerts and supporting IR activities.
• Change Management processes.
• Strong understanding of system hardening and secure configuration standards (e.g. ISM and Essential Eight).
• Strong knowledge of Australian Government security frameworks and regulatory controls (e.g. PSPF).
• Ability to support compliance activities (e.g. gather artefacts from systems and perform regular reporting practices).

About You And What You'll Bring - Desirable

• Proven experience in Identity and Access Management (IdAM).
• Familiarity with Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA).
• Elasticsearch as an observability platform.
• Experience with automation and orchestration tooling (e.g. Ansible or equivalent).
• Experience with IT service management platforms and governance workflows (e.g. ServiceNow).

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and holds a current NV-1 level security clearance.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

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.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We’re not hiring followers. We’re recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We’re already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay And Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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.