8 hours ago
Canberra, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and governance of Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Standard Operating Environments, including images, templates, configuration baselines, build procedures, and lifecycle plans.
- Maintain secure and supportable operating system platforms through hardening, configuration management, patch assessment and deployment, vulnerability remediation, upgrades, and end-of-support planning.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, application, database, storage, network, backup, identity, monitoring, cybersecurity, architecture, vendor, and service-management specialists to meet end-to-end service requirements.
- Automate operating system provisioning, configuration, validation, patching, compliance checking, health checks, and reporting using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Red Hat Satellite, and equivalent tools.
- Provide technical leadership for complex operating system incidents, root-cause analysis, monitoring, performance and capacity management, backup and recovery, resilience, change activities, and vendor escalations.
- Maintain accurate SOE designs, configuration standards, lifecycle plans, support guides, and operational documentation.
Requirements
- Experience implementing, maintaining, and supporting enterprise Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments, including Standard Operating Environment development, deployment, governance, upgrades, maintenance, and end-of-support lifecycle management.
- Windows Server experience with Group Policy, Active Directory integration, PowerShell, patching, security baselines, event logging, and performance monitoring.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience with package and repository management, systemd, SELinux, identity integration, shell scripting, patching, and logging.
- Understanding of operating system security hardening, vulnerability remediation, privileged access, identity and access management, secure configuration, and dependencies across compute, storage, networking, backup, virtualization, applications, databases, monitoring, and security services.
- Experience automating operating system management with PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Red Hat Satellite, or Azure Automation.
- Experience supporting Windows or Red Hat workloads on VMware, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, private cloud, or comparable enterprise platforms.
- Ability to lead complex operating system engineering activities and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary technical, vendor, and service-management teams.
- Australian citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain an NV-1 security clearance are required.
Benefits
- Flexible work options including up to 12 additional Life Days 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 government, defence, and national security projects.
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.