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Platform Engineer

Leidos · Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement
Location
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen.

Job summary

This role builds, supports, and improves platform services that engineering teams use to develop, deploy, and operate secure applications, with a focus on containerised workloads across Kubernetes platforms. Key work includes managing Rancher and OpenShift environments, maintaining Jenkins and Git CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, automating operations with Ansible and infrastructure-as-code practices, and supporting Linux administration, platform integrations, and secure DevSecOps operations.

Benefits

Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year)Part-time arrangementsJob sharingCompressed hoursFree access to Headspace and MeQuilibriumAccess over 120,000 on-demand coursesTechnical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunHealth and Wellness programsIncome ProtectionPaid LeaveRetirement

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes environments, including OpenShift or similar platform management tooling.
  • Experience administering Linux-based server or platform environments.
  • Experience building, maintaining or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, particularly using Jenkins.
  • Practical experience with automation and configuration management using Ansible, scripting or similar technologies.
  • Understanding of Docker, containerised application delivery and Kubernetes deployment patterns.
  • Experience with Helm, infrastructure as code or other platform automation tooling.
  • Knowledge of security scanning, vulnerability remediation, certificate management, access controls and secure platform practices.
  • Strong troubleshooting, communication and collaboration skills
  • The successful applicant to be an Australian citizen.
  • Must hold, or be eligible to obtain and maintain, the appropriate security clearance and any associated customer access approvals required for the position.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and support Kubernetes environments using Rancher and OpenShift to monitor workloads, deployments and platform health.
  • Support the migration of containerised workloads between Kubernetes platforms, including updates to Helm charts, deployment configurations and routing.
  • Develop, maintain and improve CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, supporting reliable Docker image build, test and deployment outcomes using Jenkins and Git.
  • Automate platform configuration, deployment and operational tasks using Ansible, scripting and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Administer Linux-based platform environments, including upgrades, patching, troubleshooting and performance monitoring.
  • Integrate applications with supporting platform services, including object storage, artifact repositories and Git repositories.
  • Support secure platform operations, including security scanning, vulnerability remediation, certificate management, access controls and DevSecOps practices.
  • Troubleshoot platform, pipeline and environment issues in collaboration with development, test and security teams.

Skills

AnsibleDockerGitHelmJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftRancherArtifactoryElasticsearchGrafanaKibanaOpenTelemetryPrometheusS3

Industry

GovernmentDefenceNational security

Company size

Around 2,000

Security clearance

BaselineNV1NV2TSPV

Relocation

No