Devops Engineerintelligence (c4isr)

Company Description

Every person at Leidos plays an important and valued role bringing science, engineering and technology together to produce practical solutions for our customers’ most complex problems. It’s how we help to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient – work that matters and a mission, like those of our customers, we are passionate about. We’re open minded, ambitious and committed to enabling our people to do their best work, to be inspired by what they can achieve and the impact they can have.

Here in Australia, we’re agile and growing fast. Our 1,500 employees are busy building an enviable reputation for innovation and delivery. And, as part of a US-based organisation with 37,000 people and a 50 year history, we are able to draw upon world-leading technical expertise to help us provide the best solutions to our customers.

Job Description

We have multiple opportunities to join a small close knit team that works closely with our client. Our team has a diverse mix of skills and cross training is a strategy, so flexibility will be required. This is also a newly formed team and your input into the phase in activity and creation of process and procedures for the day to day operations will be critical. Leidos is building a new program with a new customer account. The program will implement new DevOps build pipelines and services for capability delivery teams and develop new business applications for end users.

Your role in the team will be to design and implement software development practices, services and tools to provide a ecosystem of development environments for streamlined system delivery.

Qualifications

About You and What You Will Bring

Attributes, attitudes and behaviours that will be highly desirable include and of the following: 

• Experience in the design and implementation of DevOps or DevSecOps approaches to software development;
• A love of all things software and a desire to solve interesting problems through coding;
• Being adaptable to change and pivoting where required;
• Being familiar with a range of relevant technologies including but not limited to: Java, Ansible, Python;
• Being familiar with a range of relevant technical domains including but not limited to: data management; automated build and deployments; cloud technologies;
• Hand-on experience in setting up software development tool-chains including but not limited to configuration management tools, artefact management tools, code quality and security analysis tools, automated testing tools, integrated software development environments, continuous integration tools, collaboration tools, and software and architecture modelling tools.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly;
• A strong level of familiarity with software development lifecycles and related best practices such as those related to human engineering, user experience engineering, software safety, and others;
• Real end-to-end experience with the delivery of an software development program from cradle to grave;
• Strong levels of comfort in managing ambiguity and making decisions even where information is incomplete or unclear;
• A Strong desire to tackle and solve problems, including problems that are challenging and complex;
• A lack of satisfaction if you see a process or procedure or methodology that is sub-optimal, that you have not improved, enhanced or in some way made better;
• A curiosity for novel and new ideas and problems that you are then able to use your experience and knowledge to help solve;
• Either or both of: a keen attention to detail or an ability to understand the big picture in the context of problem solving, analysis and design;
• Comfort in working as an individual contributor and as a part of a team depending on the task at hand;
• Experience within an Agile development team will be very useful including SCRUM or Kanban;
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills;
• Solid organizational skills including the ability manage staff that may or may-not being directly reporting to you; and
• Highly effective in managing multiple, concurrent activities, while understanding and managing priorities, dependencies and risk.

Technology and product experience

Tools and technologies that will be leveraged in this role include:

• Microsoft Azure
• Kubernetes and Rancher
• GitLab
• Atlassian suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket etc)
• JFrog Artifactory
• Ansible (including Tower)
• Hashicorp Terraform
• Selenium Grid, JMeter, Cucumber

Additional Information

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and to be able to hold an NV-1 security clearance. Successful candidates would also be encouraged (but not required) to undergo a Positive Vet clearance.

What you’ll love

At Leidos you’ll enjoy 12 weeks’ paid parental leave as a primary carer, flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing and more. Foster your career through complete accessto learning and development and mentoring opportunities, we have a strong track record of internal promotion and career transitions. Join a company who acknowledges “People First”.