Software Engineer - Mission Software Solutions

About the role

Leidos Australia's Mission Software Solutions team delivers customised and off-the-shelf software to Defence, Intelligence and other Government customers. It is seeking a Software Engineer to join its growing team in Melbourne, Victoria or Canberra, working on-site in a secure environment. The engineer contributes across the software development lifecycle, collaborating with engineers, architects, business analysts and customers.

Key responsibilities

• Design software solutions to complex problems and lead agile story development and estimation
• Contribute to continuous integration and automation, and integrate and deploy systems using SecDevOps practices
• Develop web-focused user interfaces and user experience, and research, prototype and develop technologies
• Apply secure development practices, coding standards and engineering principles
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests, investigate defects and fix root causes
• Produce and maintain technical documentation and work with multidisciplinary teams and customers

Required profile

• Australian citizen and active TSPV; applicants may also need to meet ITAR requirements
• Quality-focused, disciplined engineering and testing practice, and a focus on secure, maintainable software
• Clear communication, adaptability to changing priorities and collaboration with diverse teams

Required skills

• Agile software delivery and testing principles
• Advantageous: full-stack development with React, Angular.NET and Java
• REST APIs, JSON and XML, and open-source tools such as NiFi, Kafka, ELK Stack and Solr
• CI/CD tools, infrastructure as code (Ansible, GitLab, Git), Docker and Kubernetes
• Jira and Confluence, Linux and Windows environments

What we offer

• Pay range of $89,300 to $111,600
• Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing and compressed hours
• Free Headspace and MeQuilibrium access, wellness spaces and over 120,000 on-demand courses