Software Engineer: Mission-Critical Defence (On-site)

Leidos

Canberra

On-site

AUD 89,000 - 112,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Mission Software Solutions team in either Melbourne, VIC or Canberra, on-site. You will contribute across the software development lifecycle, delivering high‑quality software for defence and national security customers.

A disciplined engineering approach, secure development practices and strong collaboration with multidisciplinary stakeholders are essential.

Qualifications

  • Design innovative software solutions to complex problems.
  • Participate in and lead agile story development and estimation.
  • Contribute to Continuous Integration and automation.
  • Integrate and deploy complex systems using SecDevOps practices.
  • Undertake web‑focused User Interface development and User Experience evolution.
  • Research, prototype, investigate and develop technologies and systems.
  • Apply solid software engineering principles, coding standards and secure development practices.
  • Develop and maintain unit and integration tests and contribute to test automation.

Responsibilities

  • Design innovative software solutions to complex problems.
  • Participate in and lead agile story development and estimation.
  • Contribute to Continuous Integration and automation.
  • Integrate and deploy complex systems using SecDevOps practices.
  • Undertake web‑focused User Interface development and User Experience evolution.

Skills

Agile delivery
CI/CD
SecDevOps
UI development
Testing practices
Problem solving
Team collaboration

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
REST APIs
JSON
XML
Jira
Confluence

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Mission Software Solutions team in either Melbourne, VIC or Canberra, on-site. You will contribute across the software development lifecycle, delivering high‑quality software for defence and national security customers.

A disciplined engineering approach, secure development practices and strong collaboration with multidisciplinary stakeholders are essential.

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