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We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.\nBacked by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter.\nLeidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes:\n Flex Your Way - Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.\nWellbeing That Matters - Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.\nLearn Without Limits - Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.\nWork That Makes an Impact - Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.\nBuild Your Future - Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.\n And Much More - These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.\nAbout the Team\nYou’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.\nThe Civil Digital Modernisation business delivers IT services to Australian Federal and State Government departments and agencies to accelerate digital modernisation and ensure secure, resilient, and adaptive environments that meet evolving regulatory, compliance, and business needs. Our approach integrates advancing data, AI, cloud, and automation delivering agility, security, efficiency, and innovation at scale.\nThe Opportunity\nThe Senior Platform Engineer, Application Management is responsible for the technical management, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) applications hosted across private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments.\nThe role leads the development and execution of application upgrade, patching, maintenance, and lifecycle plans. You’ll work closely with database subject matter experts, infrastructure teams, cloud engineers, cybersecurity specialists, architects, vendors, service-management teams, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, supportable, and cost-effective application services.\nThe role provides technical leadership across the complete application lifecycle, including deployment, configuration, integration, monitoring, incident resolution, vulnerability remediation, capacity planning, disaster recovery, vendor support, and end-of-life management.\nOwn and coordinate the lifecycle of enterprise COTS applications, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, maintenance, migration and retirement, while developing practical upgrade, test, implementation, outage and rollback plans.\nCoordinate application services across database, operating system, middleware, network, storage, identity, backup, cloud and cybersecurity teams, supporting applications across private cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and hybrid environments.\nProvide technical leadership across release and change management, application maintenance, complex incident investigation, root-cause analysis, capacity and performance management, disaster recovery and service continuity.\nStrengthen application security, reliability and operational efficiency through vulnerability remediation, secure access practices, monitoring, observability and automation using technologies such as PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform and Azure DevOps.\nWork collaboratively with vendors, technical teams and business stakeholders to manage dependencies, support cases, product roadmaps and end-of-support risks, while maintaining accurate architecture artefacts, operational runbooks, recovery instructions and support documentation.\nAbout You\nWe are looking for someone who brings judgement, curiosity and a collaborative approach to work that matters.\nYou have experience managing enterprise COTS applications throughout implementation, operation, upgrades, maintenance and retirement, with the capability to lead complex technical activities and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.\nYou bring practical hybrid-cloud experience across private cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, VMware-based environments or comparable enterprise platforms, together with experience supporting Microsoft Windows Server, Linux and enterprise database technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database or PostgreSQL.\nYou understand enterprise application dependencies including web servers, middleware, APIs, certificates, identity services, service accounts, messaging, storage, networking, DNS and load balancing, and take a structured approach to troubleshooting application, database, infrastructure, integration and performance issues.\nYou have experience with automation and deployment technologies such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps or Git, complemented by an understanding of monitoring, vulnerability management, identity and access management, secure configuration and IT service-management practices.\nYou communicate technical information clearly, collaborate inclusively across technical, vendor and business teams, manage competing operational and lifecycle priorities, and produce accurate technical plans, procedures, risk assessments, implementation records and support documentation.\nThis role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen, hold and be able to maintain a NV-1 security clearance.\nIf this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. We value different experiences and are interested in the capability and potential you could bring.\nCertain roles may be subject International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements which may limit persons who hold dual nationality with certain proscribed countries from accessing material, or in the case of dual Australian-U.S citizens, may require the candidate to obtain a U.S. Persons Abroad authorisation from the U.S DDTC.\nWhat to Expect When You Apply\nOur hiring process is designed to be straightforward, respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills, experience and qualifications look aligned with the role, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:\nAn initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team\nAn interview with the hiring manager or interview panel\nWe’ll let you know what to expect before each stage, including who you’ll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process, please let us know.\nReady to explore what’s possible?\nIf this sounds like a role where you can make an impact and continue to grow, we’d like to hear from you. Please apply via the “Apply Now” button with your resume. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact .\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nFor U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\nPay Range:\nThe Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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