We’re a large scale systems integration company, committed to delivering trusted solutions that help to safeguard Australia. With over 20 years’ local experience and the backing of a 32,000 global network, we currently number 1,000 employees mainly in Canberra and Melbourne. We’re growing fast and are building a business that is focused and fit for the future. Change and innovation are central to the way we work, and we thrive when developing unique, practical solutions to seriously complex challenges.                                     

We are seeking a talented engineer with the passion to bring an enduring positive impression to our operations and refine how processes and policies define our culture. We will be relying on your extensive industry experience in IT operations, infrastructure management and emerging technologies to be the catalyst that propels our client’s operational capability into a new era of automation.

In this role you will join a team delivering day to day service and operational management support in the Defence environment along with developing solutions in alignment with a strategic platform roadmap. A relentless motivation to automate manual tasks and provide our customer with market leading self-service solutions focused on process efficiency will identify you as a key resource within the team.

Main Duties/Responsabilities:

• Contribute to the development, testing, and implementation of an automation library for environment and infrastructure management tasks in a large multi-domain ICT environment.
• Engaging with key stakeholders in other areas of the business.
• Drive continuous improvement in the tools and solutions developed by the team.
• Maintaining infrastructure and services in a shared development environment.
• Creating and maintaining documentation relating to the tools and solutions developed by the team.

• Prior experience administering products in one or more of the following groups:
  • Products in the Microsoft stack (ie. Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, etc.)
  • Infrastructure virtualization products such as VMWare or Hyper-V
  • Orchestration products such as System Center Orchestrator or vRealize Orchestrator
• Demonstrable experience in scripting/automating repeatable tasks in the Microsoft ecosystem using PowerShell.
• Demonstrable experience using code testing/test automation frameworks, such as Pester, Selenium, or Appium.
• An intermediate understanding of development methodologies and object-oriented programming concepts.
• Familiarity with source control tools such as Git.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

At Leidos, we’ve built our business on the ability to Redefine Possible and the same applies to your career. We proudly embrace diversity and support our people at every stage of their Leidos journey in terms of inclusion, accessibility and flexibility. We look forward to welcoming you.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and ideally hold a current NV-2 security clearance .