Asks for

The ad says“This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and be able to gain a NV-1 level security clearance.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”
The ad says“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.”

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

The SRE Lead / Platform & Environment Manager combines site reliability engineering, platform leadership, and secure systems integration to support a complex health capability. The role ensures platforms are resilient, interoperable, compliant, and ready for operational use, directly enabling improved clinical and decision-making outcomes.

In addition, the role leads a team of engineers and system administrators, drives integration health uplift, and ensures delivery of secure, scalable, and highly reliable environments aligned to architectural and regulatory standards.

This role is critical to ensuring that health platforms supporting national and Defence outcomes remain secure, reliable, and continuously available, enabling safe clinical decision-making and operational effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

Lead 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.
Manage and mentor platform engineering teams while collaborating with architects, delivery teams, vendors, and stakeholders to provide reporting on platform health, risks, performance, and operational impacts.

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.
Demonstrated leadership experience leading and mentoring technical teams, establishing governance and operational standards, and engaging effectively with stakeholders across engineering, security, and operational functions.
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 be able to gain 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.

Next Steps

To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.
Recruitment process - virtual / face to face interview & background checks.
Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.
We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team careers.au@au.leidos.com if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.