At Leidos, we do work that really matters inspired by our mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. With 25 years of local experience, our over 2000 team members, work together to solve Australia’s toughest challenges in government, defence, intelligence and border protection. We’re robust and ambitious, and we empower our people to do their best work. You’ll feel inspired by what you can achieve and will be supported by an inclusive and flexible culture that genuinely cares for your wellbeing. Together, we can be the difference.

We've got so much to offer at Leidos, here are a just a few of the Benefits we provide our team:

• 12 Extra Days Leave: Life Days are the Leidos way of recognising that we all need some extra time out to take care of life. By working slightly more than the minimum weekly hours (2 hours per week for full timers) you can accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year.
• Leidos Life Hub provides access to discount offers or cashback rewards with over 400 Australian and International retailers.
• Professional development and support to set you up for success and assist you in achieving your career aspirations.

Your New Role

Are you a talented agile software engineer looking for an exciting new role in Melbourne in Leidos Australia’s Intelligence business line? Our exciting classified programs at Leidos develop and support our Federal Government customers IT systems, including mission critical classified systems that cover a wide breadth of software engineering disciplines including enterprise systems, web applications, cyber security, geospatial systems and real-time signal processing. These are developed using the latest agile processes and industry best practices, leveraging leading commercial and open source frameworks and tools.

In this role you will:

• Lead a small team of software engineers to build a mission system for our customers
• Collaborate and innovate with our talented cross-functional and cross-domain teams developing and supporting compelling software solutions, constantly refining our approach and methods
• Design innovative software solutions to complex problems;
• Lead agile story mapping and estimation;
• Integrate and deploy complex systems using SecDevOps practices;
• Collaborate with the other leaders on the project including the project manager, architect, security advisor, test manager and customers.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, customer demonstrations, engagement and innovation activities and initiatives and business development responses.

If you have a desire to expand your career in a dynamic and collaborative workplace that encourages innovation, with a work scope that provides a real sense of purpose, then this role is for you.

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum NV-1 security clearance with the capability of uplifting to a PV clearance.

What You'll Bring

We are looking for experience with Agile, Scrum and associated methodologies and it is desirable that you have a Bachelor Degree (or higher) in Software Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (with software engineering experience), however, we would also like to encourage candidates to apply that have a wide range of industry work experience from 2+ years. In addition, you will have:

• Proven experience tackling and solving challenging and complex engineering problems,
• Experience within an agile development team utilising SCRUM or Kanban
• Demonstrated experience or exposure to all/some of the following:
  • Integration with external systems/applications (REST API, integration protocols, JSON/XML)
  • CI/CD tools and technologies and infrastructure as code (e.g. Ansible, Jenkins, git)
  • Experience with low-code platforms (e.g. Appian, Mednix, OutSystems)
  • Some familiarity with containerisation using Docker, Kubernetes
  • Some familiarity JIRA and Confluence

We cannot wait to hear from you and welcome you into our exciting, mission focused intelligence environment!

What You'll Love

At Leidos we look after our staff. Flexible working practices, great team building initiatives, consistent learning and development opportunities, employee discounts and excellent exposure to a variety of technologies and projects are just some of the perks. We are growing and evolving, so it’s an exciting place to be. 

Our diverse employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Qualified women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. Leidos is an Equal Opportunity Employer.