Senior DevOps Engineer — Secure Cloud, IaC & CI/CD

Leidos; Wollongong City Council; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Life Days (Flex Your Way) up to 12 off

Part-time arrangements

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Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a secure engineering environment. You will work across AWS and on‑prem environments, using GitLab runners and IaC to automate infrastructure.

The role emphasizes security in software delivery and production support across multiple environments. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to continuous improvement in DevOps practices while aligning with mission-critical government and defense

Qualifications

• Experience in a Senior DevOps/DevSecOps role in engineering or regulated environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, IaC and automation.
• Ability to integrate security practices into software delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting build, test, security scanning and deployment.
• Work with AWS and on-prem; GitLab runners for CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and automate infrastructure using IaC and Configuration as Code.
• Support DevOps/DevSecOps platforms across development, test, staging and production environments.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes and automation tooling to improve platform reliability and delivery.
• Integrate security controls, monitoring, logging and alerting into automated delivery pipelines.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, deployment and pipeline issues.
• Support releases, deployments and rollback activities.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive continuous improvement across DevOps practices.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Production support

Security practices

Tools

GitLab

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a secure engineering environment. You will work across AWS and on‑prem environments, using GitLab runners and IaC to automate infrastructure.

The role emphasizes security in software delivery and production support across multiple environments. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to continuous improvement in DevOps practices while aligning with mission-critical government and defense