Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Secure CI/CD for Defence

Leidos Australia Pty Ltd; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility options

Wellbeing programs

Learning platform access

Impactful work

Career development

Job summary

Leidos Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to strengthen secure CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native delivery across Defence programs. You will lead automation, security controls and modernisation while collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile setting.

You will drive secure software delivery, mentor engineers, and champion DevSecOps best practices across the organisation, including vulnerability management and compliance across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing and supporting secure CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation practices using Terraform, Ansible and scripting languages such as Python, Bash or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles, secure software development practices, vulnerability management and security tooling across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience working with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes within cloud and hybrid environments.
• Experience supporting Linux-based enterprise platforms and delivering secure, scalable and highly available solutions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within Agile teams, providing technical leadership, mentoring and continuous improvement across engineering and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of secure CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks and cloud-native DevSecOps practices.
• Champion security-by-design principles by integrating vulnerability management, compliance controls, threat detection and security tooling throughout the lifecycle.
• Collaborate with software engineers, system engineers, architects and customer stakeholders to deliver scalable, resilient and secure solutions in an Agile environment.
• Drive platform optimisation, infrastructure as code adoption, monitoring and operational excellence while mentoring team members and promoting DevSecOps practices.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

PowerShell

DevSecOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Agile leadership

Tools

Cloud platforms

Security tooling

Job description

Leidos Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to strengthen secure CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native delivery across Defence programs. You will lead automation, security controls and modernisation while collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile setting.

You will drive secure software delivery, mentor engineers, and champion DevSecOps best practices across the organisation, including vulnerability management and compliance across the lifecycle.