Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead

Job title: Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead

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Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

This technical role is responsible for assuring the reliability, availability, security, and operational performance of a mission-critical health platform delivered across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

The SRE and Platform Engineer applies site reliability engineering, platform engineering, and secure systems integration practices to support a complex health capability. The role develops measurable evidence—including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, resilience tests, operational telemetry, and trend analysis—to demonstrate that platforms are reliable, interoperable, compliant, and ready for operational use.

The role works directly with clinical, engineering, security, and operational teams to translate clinical service needs into reliable technical outcomes. It investigates system behaviour, validates integration health, automates repeatable controls, and produces evidence that reliability risks are understood and managed.

This role is critical to providing clinical teams with secure, stable, and observable systems that support safe decision-making and continuity of care. Its success is demonstrated through objective reliability evidence, reduced operational risk, and sustained platform performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform Site Reliability Engineering and platform operations across cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, security, performance, and compliance with architectural standards.

• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; lead incident response, escalation, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements to enhance platform reliability and reduce MTTD/MTTR.

• Drive platform engineering excellence through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automation, self-healing operations, and modern DevSecOps practices.

• Lead deployment and integration of new health capabilities into customer environments, ensuring interoperability, operational readiness, and successful delivery of complex platform uplift programs.

• About You and What You'll Bring

• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, or environment management, including multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, automation, and DevSecOps practices.

• Proven capability managing mission-critical, high-availability enterprise environments, including implementation of SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), incident management, system integration, interoperability, networking, and database platforms.

• Experience working in Defence, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of ITIL or structured service management frameworks and a strong focus on security, compliance, resilience, and service continuity.

• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations, after-hours support, and work within secure/classified environments.

• This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a NV-1 level security clearance.

• Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

• Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

• Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is 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.

• Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.