Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead

Leidos Australia Pty Ltd; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly workplace

Job summary

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions supporting the health sector, defence, and government. This Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead role ensures reliability, security, and operational performance across multi-cloud and on‑prem environments.

The role applies SRE, platform engineering, and secure systems integration to deliver measurable evidence of reliability. You’ll collaborate with clinical, engineering, security and operations teams to translate needs into reliable

Qualifications

• Experience in site reliability engineering and platform engineering across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Proven ability to define and enforce SLOs/SLIs, incident management, and resilience improvements.
• Knowledge of ITIL or structured service management frameworks and security/compliance focus.

Responsibilities

• Perform SRE and platform operations across cloud and on‑prem environments to ensure high availability and security.
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs and manage incident response, RCAs, and resilience improvements.
• Drive IaC, CI/CD, automation, and DevSecOps practices to improve operations.
• Lead deployment and integration of new health capabilities into customer environments.
• Collaborate with clinical, engineering, security, and operations teams to translate service needs into reliable tech outcomes.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform engineering

Multi-cloud

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD automation

DevSecOps

Incident management

Security/compliance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead

we're a 'Family Friendly' certified workplace - we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own 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 technical role is responsible for assuring the reliability, availability, security, and operational performance of a mission-critical health platform delivered across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

The SRE and Platform Engineer applies site reliability engineering, platform engineering, and secure systems integration practices to support a complex health capability. The role develops measurable evidence—including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, resilience tests, operational telemetry, and trend analysis—to demonstrate that platforms are reliable, interoperable, compliant, and ready for operational use.

The role works directly with clinical, engineering, security, and operational teams to translate clinical service needs into reliable technical outcomes. It investigates system behaviour, validates integration health, automates repeatable controls, and produces evidence that reliability risks are understood and managed.

This role is critical to providing clinical teams with secure, stable, and observable systems that support safe decision-making and continuity of care. Its success is demonstrated through objective reliability evidence, reduced operational risk, and sustained platform performance.

Key Responsibilities

Perform 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.

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.

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.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold 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. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. 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.

Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.