DevOps Engineer

Company Description

At Leidos, we do work that really matters inspired by our mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. With 25 years of local experience, our 2000 team members, work together to solve Australia’s toughest challenges in government, defence, intelligence and border protection. We’re robust and ambitious, and we empower our people to do their best work. You’ll feel inspired by what you can achieve and will be supported by an inclusive and flexible culture that genuinely cares for your wellbeing. Together, we can be the difference.

We've got so much to offer at Leidos, here are a just a few of the Benefits we provide our team:

• Life Days are the Leidos way of recognising that we all need some extra time out to take care of life. By working slightly more than the minimum weekly hours (2 hours per week for full timers) you can accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year.
• Professional development and support to set you up for success and assist you in achieving your career aspirations. 
• Novated leasing through our partners FleetPlus.
• Leidos Life Hub provides access to discount offers or cashback rewards with over 400 Australian and International retailers.

Job Description

We have multiple opportunities to join a small close knit team that works closely with our client on our client site. Our team has a diverse mix of skills and cross training is a strategy, so flexibility will be required.

Your role in the team will be to design and implement software development practices, services and tools to provide a ecosystem of development environments for streamlined system delivery.

Key Responsibilities: -

• Develop, Review, and implement CI/CD principles including containerization using Docker.
• Implement DevSecOps tools’ standards and common ways of working and ‘Best Practices’.
• Design, implement, and maintain both AWS and on-premises infrastructure for Pre-Production and Production Environments
• Implementing identity and access management (IAM) policies
• Work closely with Development and QA teams to ensure that applications are developed and deployed efficiently.
• Create and manage resource deployment strategies, ensuring efficient utilization and scalability.
• Support Continuous automation to enable seamless deployments and monitoring of software applications.
• Repository creation and implement.
• Provision Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across the DevOps architecture
• Develop and maintain comprehensive network configurations to ensure seamless integration between on premises and cloud environments.
• Develop, scale, and control strategies, standards, quality gates, guidelines, and governance of Continuous Integration systems.
• Configure and maintain various servers, databases, and networks to ensure infrastructure is always up and running and any issues are resolved quickly.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring

• Experience in implementing, testing and deploying cloud infrastructure platforms into on premises environment
• Ability to effectively manage multiple, concurrent activities, while understanding and managing priorities, dependencies and risk
• Ability to work and liaise with team remotely due to the organisational structure being spread between Canberra and Melbourne on different networks.
• AWS certifications are highly desirable

Experience with below tools and technologies leveraged in this role will be highly desirable:

• AWS
• Atlassian suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket etc)
• Kubernetes and Rancher
• GitLab
• JFrog Artifactory
• Ansible (including Tower)
• Hashicorp Terraform
• Helm

Due to the nature of work we do for our customers, all applicants are required to be Australian Citizens and hold a NV1 security clearance and be capable of upgrading to a PV security clearance.

Additional Information

We’ve been keeping Australia safer, healthier and more efficient for 25 years, here’s just three ways how:

• We work with the Australian Department of Defence to design and operate the cyber security tools used across the Army, Navy and Air force.
• We deliver software development and operational support through to the integration of underwater autonomous vehicles and survey ships to meet mission objectives.
• We’re building the next generation secret end user environment for the Australian Department of Defence across a number of strategic locations around Australia. 

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are 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.