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Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers\nDo Work That Matters\nLeidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.\nYour New Role and Responsibilities\nThis role is responsible for the reliability, availability, security, and operational performance of a mission-critical health platform delivered across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.\nThe SRE Lead / Platform & Environment Manager combines site reliability engineering, platform leadership, and secure systems integration to support a complex health capability. The role ensures platforms are resilient, interoperable, compliant, and ready for operational use, directly enabling improved clinical and decision-making outcomes.\nIn addition, the role leads a team of engineers and system administrators, drives integration health uplift, and ensures delivery of secure, scalable, and highly reliable environments aligned to architectural and regulatory standards.\nThis role is critical to ensuring that health platforms supporting national and Defence outcomes remain secure, reliable, and continuously available, enabling safe clinical decision-making and operational effectiveness.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead Site Reliability Engineering and platform operations across cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, security, performance, and compliance with architectural standards.\n\nDefine and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; lead incident response, escalation, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements to enhance platform reliability and reduce MTTD/MTTR.\n\nDrive platform engineering excellence through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automation, self-healing operations, and modern DevSecOps practices.\n\nLead deployment and integration of new health capabilities into customer environments, ensuring interoperability, operational readiness, and successful delivery of complex platform uplift programs.\n\nManage and mentor platform engineering teams while collaborating with architects, delivery teams, vendors, and stakeholders to provide reporting on platform health, risks, performance, and operational impacts.\n\nAbout You and What You'll Bring\nStrong experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, or environment management, including multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, automation, and DevSecOps practices.\n\nProven capability managing mission-critical, high-availability enterprise environments, including implementation of SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), incident management, system integration, interoperability, networking, and database platforms.\n\nDemonstrated leadership experience leading and mentoring technical teams, establishing governance and operational standards, and engaging effectively with stakeholders across engineering, security, and operational functions.\n\nExperience working in Defence, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of ITIL or structured service management frameworks and a strong focus on security, compliance, resilience, and service continuity.\n\nWillingness to participate in on-call rotations, after-hours support, and work within secure/classified environments.\n\nThis role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and be able to gain a NV-1 level security clearance.\nDiverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose\nProviding our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase - Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.\nLeidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is 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.\nOur five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.\nNext Steps\nTo apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.\n\nRecruitment process - virtual / face to face interview & background checks.\n\nApplicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.\n\nWe are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team  if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.\n\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. 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