Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead

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

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer / Platform & Environment Manager to oversee reliability, availability and security of a mission-critical health platform across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, drive IaC, CI/CD, automation and DevSecOps, mentor platform teams, and collaborate with architects, delivery teams and stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE, platform engineering, or environment management across multi‑cloud and hybrid infra.
• Proven leadership with governance and operating standards across engineering and security.
• Experience in defence/healthcare or highly regulated environments with ITIL knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE and platform operations across cloud and on‑prem environments ensuring high availability and compliance.
• Define SLOs/SLIs, manage incidents, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements.
• Drive IaC, CI/CD, automation, and DevSecOps practices for platform engineering.
• Lead deployment of new health capabilities into customer environments and ensure interoperability.
• Mentor platform engineering teams and report on health and risks.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform engineering

Multi-cloud

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD

Automation

DevSecOps

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

DevSecOps

Job description

We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their unique family setting and actively support them. Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers

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 our global experience and network of partners, are working to 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. The role ensures platforms are resilient, interoperable, compliant, and ready for operational use, directly enabling improved clinical and decision‑making outcomes.

• 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 programs.
• 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 (SRE), 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, health‑care, 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.
• This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and to be able to gain a NV‑1 level security clearance.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive.

We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups. Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Pay and Benefits

Original Posting: For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above. Pay Range: The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.

Securing Your Data Leidos will never ask you to provide payment‑related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment‑related information or any other personal information, please report the email to [e-mail].

Commitment and Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental 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. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.