Site Reliability Engineer — Flexible, High-Impact Tech

Leidos; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the AGO GEO SPACES program in Canberra. You will ensure reliability, performance and resilience of mission-critical platforms in a secure environment, collaborating with engineering and operations teams to maintain exceptional service standards.

Key duties include supporting complex production environments, leading incident response, and driving automation and IaC practices across the stack.

Qualifications

• Linux/UNIX administration in enterprise environments.
• Automation using Python/Go/Bash to improve efficiency.
• IaC tooling: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and observability practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Experience with virtualised and cloud environments (VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Ability to investigate incidents and perform root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support availability, capacity and reliability of production environments with software engineering approaches.
• Provide Level 2/3 operational support, lead incident response and implement preventative improvements.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting and logging with meaningful service metrics, SLIs and SLOs.
• Advance automation and infrastructure-as-code, enabling secure and reliable deployments.

Skills

Linux/UNIX administration

Automation scripting

Incident investigation

Monitoring & observability

CI/CD practices

High-availability environments

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

VMware

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the AGO GEO SPACES program in Canberra. You will ensure reliability, performance and resilience of mission-critical platforms in a secure environment, collaborating with engineering and operations teams to maintain exceptional service standards.

Key duties include supporting complex production environments, leading incident response, and driving automation and IaC practices across the stack.