At Leidos we bring together science, engineering and technology to deliver smart solutions to our customers’ most complex challenges. Great ideas are our currency and every person here is encouraged and enabled to be curious, open-minded and confident in bringing theirs to the table - to be inspired by what they can achieve and the impact they can have.

Leidos Australia is looking for talented and motivated Software Engineers to join our team based in Melbourne to work on a mission critical user application implemented on a geographically distributed virtualised enterprise IT infrastructure.

As a Software Engineer at Leidos you will be responsible for performing complex software engineering assignments requiring familiarity and expertise with a broad field of engineering and technical knowledge. This is a rare opportunity to work in a truly Agile environment, with customer representatives on site as Product Owner on a day to day basis, and cross-functional teams able to take new features through the full software engineering lifecycle for an important Defence mission critical program.

Working in a cross-functional Agile development team you will:

• Collaborate and innovate with our talented cross-functional and cross-domain teams on compelling software solutions, constantly refining our approach and methods
• Contribute to software design, documentation, development, integration, test and release/deployment
• Contribute to user interface design and development
• Contribute to the management and building of DevOps/Agile process and tools
• Perform software prototyping, investigations, research and development
• Contribute to software planning and estimating, status monitoring and reporting
• Engage with other professionals across the broader team and the business to grow our solutions and your career

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a current NV1/NV2 AGSVA security clearance.

About You and What You'll Bring

You will demonstrate a pro-active approach with the ability to understand the business, identify issues and develop enduring and trusting relationships with both the vast talent in Leidos and a broad range of customers. 

Coupled with your education you ideally have exposure to some of the below tools and methodologies. We do not expect you to be an expert in each of the points below, if you meet only a few of them we still encourage you to apply:

• Substantial experience with Agile, Scrum and associated methodologies
• Experience in integration with external systems/applications (REST API, integration protocols, JSON/XML)
• Experience in the integration and customisation of open source technologies (NiFi, Kafka, Elastic (ELK) Stack, Solr)
• Experience in CI/CD tools and technologies and infrastructure as code (Ansible, Jenkins, git)
• Experience in Java and related open source frameworks
• Knowledge and application of a broad range of skills including software, systems and enterprise architecture, software and hardware engineering, integration
• Good problem solving skills
• Experience in Linux and Windows
• Willingness to document and improve software development processes
• Demonstrated ability to produce consistently good results in a complex environment

This is truly a unique opportunity to gain experience in a new customer environment and take your career into a highly classified, mission critical, challenging and rewarding direction.

Due to the nature of this work this role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an NV-1 or NV-2 security clearance.

The successful candidate may need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements applicable to this role, and your nationality may be a factor in determining your suitability for this role.  

What you’ll love

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are 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. 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.