Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead

Leidos Australia; City of Knox; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Friendly workplace

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking an SRE Lead/Platform & Environment Manager to oversee reliability, security, and performance of a mission-critical health platform. This role combines site reliability engineering with platform leadership.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes, and a demonstrated ability to lead technical teams. Australian citizenship and the ability to obtain NV-1 security clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in site reliability engineering and platform operations.
• Proven capability managing high-availability enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated leadership experience leading technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead site reliability engineering and platform operations across environments.
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Manage and mentor platform engineering teams.

Skills

Site reliability engineering

Platform engineering

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD

DevSecOps practices

Job description

Description

We are a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace that understands and supports the varied roles our team members have in their unique family settings.

Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by global experience and a network of partners, solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role And Responsibilities

This role is responsible for the reliability, availability, security, and operational performance of a mission‑critical health platform delivered across multi‑cloud and on‑premises environments. The SRE Lead / Platform & Environment Manager combines site reliability engineering, platform leadership, and secure systems integration to support a complex health capability, ensuring platforms are resilient, interoperable, compliant, and ready for operational use.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead site reliability engineering and platform operations across cloud and on‑premises environments, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, security, performance, and compliance with architectural standards.
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; lead incident response, escalation, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements to enhance platform reliability and reduce MTTD/MTTR.
• Drive platform engineering excellence through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automation, self‑healing operations, and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Lead deployment and integration of new health capabilities into customer environments, ensuring interoperability, operational readiness, and successful delivery of complex platform uplift programmes.
• Manage and mentor platform engineering teams while collaborating with architects, delivery teams, vendors, and stakeholders to provide reporting on platform health, risks, performance, and operational impacts.

About You And What You'll Bring

• Strong experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or environment management, including multi‑cloud and hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, automation, and DevSecOps practices.
• Proven capability managing mission‑critical, high‑availability enterprise environments, including implementation of SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), incident management, system integration, interoperability, networking, and database platforms.
• Demonstrated leadership experience leading and mentoring technical teams, establishing governance and operational standards, and engaging effectively with stakeholders across engineering, security, and operational functions.
• Experience working in defence, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of ITIL or structured service management frameworks and a strong focus on security, compliance, resilience, and service continuity.
• Willingness to participate in on‑call rotations, after‑hours support, and work within secure/classified environments.
• Must be an Australian citizen and able to obtain NV‑1 level security clearance.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity

Leidos is an equal opportunities organisation committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups. Your application will receive consideration without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.