Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead

Description

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Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life.

Our 2000 local experts, backed by global experience and a network of partners, 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, ensuring platforms are resilient, interoperable, compliant, and ready for operational use.

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 (Ia C), CI/CD pipelines, automation, self‑healing operations, and modern Dev Sec Ops practices.
• Lead deployment and integration of new health capabilities into customer environments, ensuring interoperability, operational readiness, and successful delivery of complex platform uplift programmes.
• 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, platform engineering, or environment management, including multi‑cloud and hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes/Open Shift, CI/CD, automation, and Dev Sec Ops 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.
• Must be an Australian citizen and able to obtain NV‑1 level security clearance.
• Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity

Leidos is an equal opportunities organisation committed to creating an inclusive workplace.

We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Your application will receive consideration without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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