Senior Platform Engineer | OpenShift

About Leidos Australia

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.

Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter.

Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes:

• Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
• Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
• Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
• Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
• Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
• And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

About the Team

You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.

We deliver secure, resilient and innovative technology services that enable Defence enterprise and warfighting capabilities across multiple classified domains and networks. We provide world-class ICT operations and agile digital modernisation using advanced analytics, automation, hybrid cloud, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, cybersecurity and AI to optimise highly complex, mission-critical environments.

The Opportunity

As an OpenShift Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, delivering, and evolving a secure, scalable container platform that enables development teams to build, deploy, and operate critical applications with confidence. Working within a collaborative cloud and infrastructure team, you will help shape modern platform capabilities that support business and customer outcomes.

• Design, implement, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift platform services across complex enterprise environments, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, cloud, security, and infrastructure teams to streamline deployment pipelines, improve platform adoption, and enhance the developer experience.
• Automate platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code and modern engineering practices.
• Contribute to platform strategy, continuous improvement initiatives, and operational support activities while promoting best practices for virtualisation, containerisation, observability, resilience, and cloud-native delivery.

About You

You are passionate about modern platform engineering and enjoy creating reliable, secure environments that enable teams to deliver value faster. You bring a balance of technical capability, collaboration, and continuous improvement, with a focus on delivering practical outcomes in complex environments.

Essential

• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift based container platforms and Kubernetes platforms in enterprise environments including Advanced Cluster Management.
• Experience with OpenShift Networking and OVN-K, Enterprise Networking concepts, Ingress and Traffic Management, Load Balancing
• Experience with OpenShift Storage configuration including OpenShift Data Foundation, Enterprise Storage Arrays, CSI, PV
• Experience with Linux system administration, container technologies, and cloud-native architecture principles.
• Capability in automation and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and platform integration with tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or comparable solutions.
• Experience implementing platform security, monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Advantageous

• Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of service mesh, observability, DevSecOps, and cloud-native security practices.
• Experience supporting highly available, regulated, or mission-critical environments.
• Relevant Red Hat, Kubernetes, cloud, or automation certifications.
• Knowledge and hands on experience of server configuration (Dell, HPE, Cisco)
• Experience in storage technologies (NetApp, EMC)
• Knowledge or experience in different hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V)

Due to the nature of this role, you must be an Australian Citizen and hold an active NV2 security clearance.

What to Expect When You Apply

Our hiring process is designed to be straightforward, respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills, experience and qualifications look aligned with the role, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:

• An initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team
• An interview with the hiring manager or interview panel
• Any role-specific assessment, technical discussion or customer step required for the position

We’ll let you know what to expect before each stage, including who you’ll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process, please let us know.

Ready to explore what’s possible?

If this sounds like a role where you can make an impact and continue to grow, we’d like to hear from you. Please apply via the “Apply Now” button with your resume. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact Ben George, Talent Acquisition.

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.