Site Reliability Engineer — Mission-Critical Systems

Leidos Australia; Bendigo; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Headspace access

MeQuilibrium wellbeing

Learning & development programs

Flexible work options

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to deliver and sustain technology solutions in a secure environment. You will ensure reliability, performance and resilience of mission-critical platforms, collaborating with engineering and operations teams to meet stringent service standards.

The role emphasizes automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring and incident management, with opportunities to contribute to high-availability systems across Defence and national security projects.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux/UNIX administration in enterprise environments.
• Automation development using Python, Go, Bash or similar.
• Infra as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and observability practices.
• Experience with virtualization/cloud (VMware, AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Ability to investigate complex 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 RCA.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting and logging capabilities with meaningful service metrics (SLOs/SLIs).
• Enhance automation, IaC and CI/CD practices across the environment.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Linux/UNIX

Automation (Python/Go/Bash)

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring/Observability

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD tooling

Incident management & RCA

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

VMware

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to deliver and sustain technology solutions in a secure environment. You will ensure reliability, performance and resilience of mission-critical platforms, collaborating with engineering and operations teams to meet stringent service standards.

The role emphasizes automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring and incident management, with opportunities to contribute to high-availability systems across Defence and national security projects.