Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Secure Cloud CI/CD Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Wellbeing programs

Learning opportunities

Impactful projects

Career growth

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to enhance and secure mission-critical Defence capabilities. In a highly collaborative Agile setting, you will shape the DevSecOps strategy, modernise delivery pipelines, and ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

You will lead secure CI/CD design across complex programs, champion security-by-design, and work with software engineers, system engineers and customers to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing and supporting secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation (Terraform, Ansible, scripting).
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, secure SDLC, vulnerability management and tooling.
• Experience with containerisation/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in cloud/hybrid environments.
• Experience supporting Linux-based enterprise platforms and secure, scalable solutions.
• Ability to lead, mentor and drive continuous improvement in engineering and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead secure CI/CD design, implementation and continuous improvement across Defence programs.
• Champion security-by-design with vulnerability management, controls and threat detection.
• Collaborate with engineers, system architects and stakeholders in an Agile environment.
• Drive platform optimisation, IaC adoption, monitoring and operational excellence, mentor the team.

Skills

DevSecOps practices

Automation

Collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to enhance and secure mission-critical Defence capabilities. In a highly collaborative Agile setting, you will shape the DevSecOps strategy, modernise delivery pipelines, and ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

You will lead secure CI/CD design across complex programs, champion security-by-design, and work with software engineers, system engineers and customers to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.