21 hours ago
Canberra, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations collecting logs, metrics, traces, and events from enterprise systems.
- Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts, and reports for proactive monitoring and operational decision-making.
- Create scripts and automation for monitoring deployment, configuration management, and recurring operational activities.
- Use observability data to support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Contribute to technical documentation, engineering reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvements in monitoring coverage and alert quality.
Requirements
- 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 technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Awareness of security, compliance, and operational resilience in enterprise environments.
- Advantageous experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent, or another observability platform.
- Advantageous experience with Linux or Windows administration and SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Familiarity with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, or Kubernetes is advantageous.
- Knowledge of Git, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, or AppDynamics is advantageous.
- Must be an Australian citizen and hold an NV-1 security clearance.
Benefits
- Four-month contract position.
- 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 learning courses and professional development opportunities.
- Work on nationally significant projects with career growth and technical development opportunities.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureDockerElasticsearchGitGoogle CloudGrafanaJavaScriptKibanaKubernetesLinuxLogstashMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPowerShellPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraformWindows
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About Leidos
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.