Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead

About the role

Leidos Australia is hiring a Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Lead for a mission-critical health platform delivered across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. The role applies SRE, platform engineering and secure systems integration practices, producing measurable evidence such as SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, resilience tests and operational telemetry so that platforms are reliable, interoperable, compliant and ready for operation. It works directly with clinical, engineering, security and operational teams.

Key responsibilities

• Perform SRE 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 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 and operational readiness.

Required profile

• Strong experience in SRE, platform engineering or environment management, including multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Proven ability to manage mission-critical, high-availability enterprise environments, including SRE practices, incident management, system integration, interoperability, networking and database platforms.
• Experience in Defence, healthcare or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of ITIL or structured service management frameworks.
• Willingness to join on-call rotations, provide after-hours support and work in secure/classified environments.
• Australian citizenship and a NV-1 level security clearance; applicants may also need to meet ITAR requirements.

Required skills

• Multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure
• Kubernetes/OpenShift
• CI/CD and automation
• DevSecOps

Applications are made through the Leidos Australia careers page, followed by virtual or face-to-face interviews and background checks.