Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Management

About the role

Leidos Australia's Civil Digital Modernisation business delivers IT services to Australian Federal and State Government departments and agencies. The Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Management is responsible for implementing, operating, maintaining and improving enterprise infrastructure platforms hosted on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and private cloud VMware environments. The role leads infrastructure lifecycle activities and coordinates dependencies across storage, networking, application, database, cybersecurity, architecture, service management and vendor teams.

Key responsibilities

• Implement, operate and improve compute platforms across Azure, AWS and VMware, including virtual machines, operating systems, clusters, images, templates and availability configurations.
• Lead patching, upgrades, maintenance, migrations, refreshes and retirement, with plans covering dependencies, testing, outage impact, rollback and stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate infrastructure dependencies across storage, networking, applications, databases, backup, identity, monitoring and cybersecurity teams.
• Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code for deployment, configuration, patching, validation, compliance and reporting, and identify cost and resource improvements.
• Provide technical leadership on incident resolution, root cause analysis, security and vulnerability remediation, monitoring, observability, change management and vendor escalation, and maintain accurate documentation.

Required profile

• Experience implementing and managing enterprise compute, virtualisation, private cloud or hybrid-cloud platforms, including patching, upgrades, migrations and retirement.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and VMware technologies.
• Understanding of the infrastructure ecosystem: Windows Server and Linux, storage, networking, application hosting, backup, identity, security and hybrid connectivity.
• Ability to lead complex infrastructure activities and work across multidisciplinary teams.
• Australian citizenship, holding and able to maintain an NV-1 security clearance; the role may also be subject to ITAR requirements.

Required skills

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep, AWS CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible.
• Monitoring and observability: Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, VMware Aria Operations, Splunk, Elastic, Grafana or Prometheus.

What we offer

• Flexible arrangements including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time, job sharing and compressed hours.
• Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus wellness spaces.
• Over 120,000 on-demand courses and professional development opportunities.