• Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.

• Work with world leading technology business at the forefront of innovation.

• We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.  

Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers

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

We have an exciting opportunity for a DevOps Support Engineer to support our Enterprise Data Platform within the Bureau of Meteorology mission in our Melbourne office.

This role is focused on sustainment and business-as-usual (BAU) operations, ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of critical applications in a 24/7 support environment. You will provide advanced operational support, help shape engineering best practice, mentor junior team members, and act as a key technical escalation point. You will contribute to service stability, automation uplift, and continual improvement across our DevOps, application, and CI/CD lifecycle.

This role also requires participation in a rotating on‑call roster to support critical production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide operational support for Linux‑based RHEL systems and production applications, monitoring system health, performance metrics, and logs, creating dashboards, and troubleshooting issues quickly including across the Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) stack.

• Maintain and enhance GitLab CI/CD pipelines and manage/deploy code baselines across dev/test/prod environments with full consistency, traceability, and rollback capability.

• Develop and maintain automation using Ansible, Python, and shell scripts, with experience in NiFi or similar data‑integration/flow‑automation tools considered desirable.

• Support Red Hat OpenShift operations, including Pods, Services, API‑based administration tasks, OpenShift API integration, and assisting with Java‑based application deployments.

• Deliver ongoing operational reliability by participating in incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, collaborating with engineers/DBAs/stakeholders, performing patching, upgrades and compliance activities, and documenting procedures for the knowledge base.

About You and What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.

• Experience or certification in Ansible or automation tooling, plus scripting knowledge (Python preferred).

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or similar Linux certification demonstrating strong RHEL capability.

• ITIL v4 Foundation or solid practical experience with ITIL processes (incident, problem, change, release) desirable.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold NV-1 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 [email protected] if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process. 

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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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.