Leidos

Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Management

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4 days ago
Canberra, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Implement, operate, and continuously improve enterprise compute platforms across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and VMware private cloud environments.
  • Lead infrastructure lifecycle activities including patching, upgrades, maintenance, migrations, refreshes, and retirement, including dependency, testing, outage, rollback, and stakeholder plans.
  • Coordinate infrastructure dependencies across storage, networking, applications, databases, backup, identity, monitoring, and cybersecurity teams.
  • Develop automation for infrastructure deployment, configuration, patching, validation, compliance, and reporting, while identifying resource utilisation and infrastructure cost improvements.
  • Provide technical leadership for complex incident resolution, root-cause analysis, vulnerability remediation, monitoring and observability, change management, vendor escalation, and operational documentation.

Requirements

  • Experience implementing and managing enterprise compute, virtualisation, private-cloud, or hybrid-cloud platforms, including platform patching, upgrades, maintenance, migrations, refreshes, and retirement.
  • Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and VMware technologies, including compute, monitoring, governance, identity, backup, vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, and clustering.
  • Understanding of Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, enterprise storage, networking, application hosting, backup, identity, security, and hybrid connectivity.
  • Experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, Bicep, or AWS CloudFormation, and with monitoring and observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, VMware Aria Operations, Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, or Prometheus.
  • Ability to lead complex infrastructure activities across multidisciplinary teams, with knowledge of platform hardening, privileged access, vulnerability management, service management, capacity, and availability.
  • Successful applicants must be Australian citizens who hold and can maintain an NV-1 security clearance.

Benefits

  • Flexible work options including Life Days of up to 12 additional days off per year, part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
  • Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces.
  • Access to more than 120,000 on-demand courses and technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
  • Career development support for deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership.
  • Work on nationally significant projects supporting Australian government and defence customers.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureBashGrafanaLinuxPowerShellPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

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About Leidos

10,000+ employees

Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.

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