Software Engineer | 4-month contract
Leidos
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Job summary
Leidos Australia is seeking a software engineering professional to design, implement and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. You will work with senior engineers to enhance system visibility, incident investigation, and resilience across applications, infrastructure and cloud environments.
The role emphasizes developing monitoring configurations, dashboards, and automation, with opportunities for technical growth and collaboration across teams in a
Qualifications
- Knowledge of software engineering principles and scripting concepts.
- Experience with monitoring/observability to solve operational issues.
- Understanding of OS, networks, VMs, containers or cloud services.
- Awareness of relational or non-relational databases and performance basics.
- Ability to investigate issues and contribute to resolutions.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations for logs, metrics, traces and events.
- Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, alerts and reports for proactive monitoring.
- Create scripts and automation for deployment, config management and recurring tasks.
- Use observability data for troubleshooting and root-cause analysis and document findings.
Skills
Education
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Job description
At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.
Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter.
Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes:
- Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
- Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
- Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
- Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
- And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.
You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.
Join a collaborative engineering environment where you will help build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. Working alongside senior engineers and architects, you will contribute to solutions that improve system visibility, incident investigation and operational resilience across applications, infrastructure, databases and cloud environments.
- Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations that collect logs, metrics, traces and events from enterprise systems.
- Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts and reports that support proactive monitoring, performance analysis and operational decision-making.
- Create scripts and automation that streamline monitoring deployment, configuration management and recurring operational activities.
- Use observability data to support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, while contributing to technical documentation, engineering reviews and continuous improvements in monitoring coverage and alert quality.
You are developing your software engineering capability and are interested in using monitoring and observability technologies to solve practical operational challenges. You can work collaboratively across engineering and operational teams, investigate technical issues methodically, and communicate your findings clearly.
- Knowledge of software engineering principles, scripting and system integration concepts.
- Understanding of operating systems, networking, virtual machines, containers or cloud services.
- Awareness of relational or non-relational databases and foundational database performance concepts.
- Ability to analyse system behaviour, investigate technical issues and contribute to resolution activities.
- Ability to collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, database administrators and operational stakeholders.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Awareness of security, compliance and operational resilience in enterprise environments.
Advantageous:
- Exposure to Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent or another observability platform.
- Experience with Linux or Windows administration and databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL or MongoDB.
- Familiarity with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, and container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk or AppDynamics.
This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen and hold an NV-1 security clearance.
Our hiring process is designed to be straightforward, respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills, experience and qualifications look aligned with the role, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:
- An initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team
- An interview with the hiring manager or interview panel
- Any role-specific assessment, technical discussion or customer step required for the position
We’ll let you know what to expect before each stage, including who you’ll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process, please let us know.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.
Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter.
Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes:
- Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
- Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
- Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
- Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
- And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.
You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.
Join a collaborative engineering environment where you will help build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. Working alongside senior engineers and architects, you will contribute to solutions that improve system visibility, incident investigation and operational resilience across applications, infrastructure, databases and cloud environments.
- Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations that collect logs, metrics, traces and events from enterprise systems.
- Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts and reports that support proactive monitoring, performance analysis and operational decision-making.
- Create scripts and automation that streamline monitoring deployment, configuration management and recurring operational activities.
- Use observability data to support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, while contributing to technical documentation, engineering reviews and continuous improvements in monitoring coverage and alert quality.
You are developing your software engineering capability and are interested in using monitoring and observability technologies to solve practical operational challenges. You can work collaboratively across engineering and operational teams, investigate technical issues methodically, and communicate your findings clearly.
Essential:
- Knowledge of software engineering principles, scripting and system integration concepts.
- Experience developing or maintaining scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, JavaScript or a comparable language.
- Understanding of operating systems, networking, virtual machines, containers or cloud services.
- Awareness of relational or non-relational databases and foundational database performance concepts.
- Ability to analyse system behaviour, investigate technical issues and contribute to resolution activities.
- Ability to collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, database administrators and operational stakeholders.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Awareness of security, compliance and operational resilience in enterprise environments.
Advantageous:
- Exposure to Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent or another observability platform.
- Experience with Linux or Windows administration and databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL or MongoDB.
- Familiarity with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, and container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk or AppDynamics.
This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen and hold an NV-1 security clearance.
Our hiring process is designed to be straightforward, respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills, experience and qualifications look aligned with the role, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:
- An initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team
- An interview with the hiring manager or interview panel
- Any role-specific assessment, technical discussion or customer step required for the position
We’ll let you know what to expect before each stage, including who you’ll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process, please let us know.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
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