The first thing you learn at Leidos Australia is to leave current thinking at the door. Our aim is to make the world a safer, healthier and more efficient place, but we won’t get far using existing ideas. We need incisive minds like yours to weave together information technology, engineering and science skills into practical solutions for the most complex and high risk challenges.

About your new role

The primary focus of this role will be to perform technical planning, system build, integration, verification, and validation of new and existing capabilities for Defence’s enterprise information systems. Our teams enjoy interesting and challenging projects with plenty of new work and technologies ahead.

Working in a fast-paced environment in a collaborative team with mixed skillsets, you will be leading projects from a technical perspective, with a broad approach to project implementation and integration activities. You will not only lead various projects but also provide support to the team across multiple other projects.

You will tackle unique challenging situations every day, collaborate with Leidos, its partners, and Defence stakeholders. You will be a subject matter expert and advocate to fellow team members on making reliable technical decisions around supporting and deploying large-scale services.

The successful candidate for this role will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, experience in integrating multi technology platforms, solid communication skills and a desire to tackle complex problems.

Responsibilities

• As the technical lead for multiple projects, you will familiarise yourself with the deliverables and key dates of each project to balance competing priorities and manage risk and issues by developing mitigation/prevention strategies. Willing to Lead and direct the work of others; A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
• Influences development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results. Recommends and develops new technical solutions, products, and/or standards in support of function’s strategy and operations.
• The scoping, planning, implementation, configuration and coordination with various disciplines on projects of varying complexity ranging from Small too Complex to ensure successful execution of the solution.
• Influences development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results. Recommends and develops new technical solutions, products, and/or standards in support of function’s strategy and operations.
• Resolves highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation. Develops solutions that are highly innovative, and achieved through research and integration of best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget including assisting in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.

About you and what you'll bring

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you have experience in complex I.T.environments. You have strong knowledge of VMware, Microsoft and midrange system technologies. Knowledge of storage and/or networking is desired 

More importantly, you are a team player and thrive in a complex environment learning new technologies and coaching your peers.

• Strong knowledge in VMware and Microsoft Server/management technologies is required.
• General knowledge of one or more of the following technical disciplines is valued: Cisco UCS, AWS, Azure, Google Kubernetes, Docker, NetApp and Cisco compute stack.
• Must be familiar with a variety of concepts, practices and procedures related to Cloud technologies.
• Proven project management working experience.
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Process Improvement and Planning Skills.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and have a current NV-1 security clearance, with eligibility to obtain NV-2.

Applications close Friday 22nd November 2019. 

This large-scale defence program will give you access to a wide variety of projects and offer an array of career development options. 

At Leidos you’ll enjoy 12 weeks’ paid parental leave as a primary carer, flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing and more. Foster your career through complete access to learning and development and mentoring opportunities, we have a strong track record of internal promotion and career transitions.