Site Reliability Engineer – Mission-Critical Defence Systems

Cabrini Health; Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility benefits

Headspace access

MeQuilibrium access

On‑demand courses

Career growth opportunities

Meaningful projects

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the AGO GEO SPACES program in a secure, high-regulation setting. You’ll ensure reliability and performance of mission-critical platforms while collaborating with engineering and operations teams.

You will develop monitoring, automation, and IaC capabilities, supporting Linux/UNIX systems and cloud environments, with focus on incident response and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Engineer or similar infrastructure role.
• Strong Linux/UNIX administration and troubleshooting.
• Automation development using Python, Go, Bash or similar.
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management experience.
• Monitoring, logging and observability to improve reliability.
• Experience with virtualized/cloud environments (VMware, AWS, Azure or GCP).
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Ability to investigate incidents and perform root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support availability, capacity and reliability of complex production environments.
• Provide Level 2/3 operational support, incident response and root cause analysis.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting and logging capabilities with SLOs/SLIs.
• Enhance automation and CI/CD practices across the environment.

Skills

SRE / Systems Eng

Linux/UNIX

Automation scripting

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

Observability

Cloud & Virtualization

CI/CD tools

Incident analysis

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Jenkins

GitLab CI

VMware

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the AGO GEO SPACES program in a secure, high-regulation setting. You’ll ensure reliability and performance of mission-critical platforms while collaborating with engineering and operations teams.

You will develop monitoring, automation, and IaC capabilities, supporting Linux/UNIX systems and cloud environments, with focus on incident response and continuous improvement.