DevOps Support Engineer

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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 worlds 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 oncall roster to support critical production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide operational support for Linuxbased 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 dataintegration/flowautomation tools considered desirable.

• Support Red Hat OpenShift operations including Pods Services APIbased administration tasks OpenShift API integration and assisting with Javabased 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 Youll Bring

• Bachelors 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. Its 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 NetworkYoung 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) 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 if youd like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.

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