Award winning Graduate Program

Leidos has been identified as #1 Top Graduate Employer in the Defence and Aerospace sector by GradAustralia and has been recognised as a Top 75 Graduate Employer for three years in a row by the AAGE - So what makes our graduate program award winning?

• As a graduate you are employed on a permanent basis working on real projects as an embedded team member, and will spend the first 12 months on the graduate program
• You will be allocated a ‘Leidos Purple Buddy’ to help get you settled in
• You will attend a graduate specific induction along with monthly graduate catch ups as an opportunity to build connections internally and to learn more about the business
• You will be offered a formal mentoring program to help grow your career
• and will undertake a number of professional development and training courses to get you upskilled.

Leidos Benefits

• Access to over 100,000 online training and development courses through our the technical training portal Percipio
• Support of advocacy groups including; The Young Professionals, Women and Allies Network, Allies & Action for Accessibility and Abilities and the Defence & Emergency Services
• Entitlement to one day a year of volunteer leave to support a cause you’re passionate about
• Leidos is a family friendly certified organisation and we provide flexible work arrangements that are outcomes focused and may consist of; flexible work hours, Life Days (formally RDOs), Switch Days where you can switch a public holiday for an alternative days that means more to you, and a career break of between 3 months and 2 years to take time out from Leidos to explore other interests
• Access to Reward Gateway to give upfront discounts or cashback rewards with over 400 Australian and International retailers

What makes Leidos stand out?

As a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services company, Leidos works to solve the world’s most complex challenges through the integration and application of information and technology and systems to deliver unique, practical and usable solutions to our customers’ most complex challenges. 

In Australia we have over 2,000 employees mostly based in Melbourne and Canberra. Globally we number 45,000 employees and are located in 35 countries. Our Mission is to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient through information technology, engineering and science. It’s work that we can all be proud of.

Leidos is a trusted partner of the Australian Government and we deliver software applications for a wide range of missions in the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance domain as well as health solutions. We provide critical projects to the Department of Defence whilst supporting the IT environment for the Australian Taxation Office. We also maintain legislative websites for a number of governments.

Your New Role

An average week for a Graduate Software Engineer could include a wide range of activities including:

• Liaising with system users to document a requirement or specification and understand their needs, goals, and any issues or limitations;
• Using your skills to undertake software analysis, design, development and testing of software;
• Solving complex problems using software related methodologies, processes, standards and tools;
• Translating and implementing simple development project requirements into physical database structures and code;
• Applying data analysis and data modelling techniques to establish, modify or maintain a data structure and its associated components;
• Analysing code and systems for potential security vulnerabilities and code to avoid accidental introduction of such vulnerabilities;
• Assisting in the investigation and resolution of issues relating to applications by correcting program errors, preparing instructions, analysing system capabilities and output requirements, in order to meet software standards;
• Working as part of a team in an Agile environment to contribute to the overall success of program delivery by working on individual activities and collaborating to come together using configuration and version control;
• Undertaking independent learning to improve your knowledge of software development.
• At Leidos we work with a number of different tools and technologies to deliver complex solutions to our customers from project to project. Your role could include exposure to some of the following, noting previous experience is not required
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform, Ansible  
• Cloud Technologies – AWS, Azure  
• On Prem – OpenShift, VMWare  
• Kubernetes/Containers – Docker/Containerd, Rancher, Tanzu, Helm, Skaffold  
• Web – React
• DB – Oracle, Postgres, SQLServer, MongoDB, Redis,
• DevSecOps – GitLab, Jenkins, GitOps  
• Agile – Scrum, Kanban, XP 

Graduates will be supported to develop their skills and knowledge specific to this role, to ensure they are able to contribute and reach their highest potential. As a Leidos graduate, you will be working on interesting and challenging projects and will take part in a range of training and development opportunities.

About You and What You'll Bring

This role is ideal for someone who is completing or has recently completed a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in a related discipline:

• Bachelor of Software Engineering
• Bachelor of Software Development
• Bachelor of Information Technology
• Bachelor of Computer Science
• Bachelor of Systems Engineering

Along with your education and any practical experience, Leidos values individuals who use their initiative and seek to understand the business and develop relationships based on respect.

Successful candidates must be Australian Citizens at the time of application to be eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

At Leidos, we proudly embrace diversity and support our people at every stage of their Leidos journey in terms of inclusion, accessibility and flexibility. We have a strong track record of internal promotion and career transitions. And at Leidos you’ll enjoy flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing, 12 weeks paid parental leave as a primary carer and more. We look forward to welcoming you.

Previous applicants need not apply.