# Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Management

**Company**: Leidos Australia
**Location**: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.

You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. The 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.

The Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Management is responsible for the implementation, operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of enterprise infrastructure platforms hosted across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and private cloud VMware environments.

Responsibilities:

- Implement, operate and continuously improve enterprise compute platforms across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and VMware private cloud environments, including virtual machines, operating systems, clusters, images, templates, availability configurations and associated platform services.

- Lead infrastructure lifecycle activities including patching, upgrades, maintenance, migrations, refreshes and retirement, developing practical plans that account for dependencies, testing, outage impacts, implementation activities, rollback arrangements and stakeholder communication.

- Coordinate infrastructure dependencies across storage, networking, applications, databases, backup, identity, monitoring and cybersecurity teams to deliver integrated, resilient services, including availability, capacity, performance, disaster recovery and business-continuity requirements.

- Develop automation and repeatable infrastructure deployment, configuration, patching, validation, compliance and reporting using technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, AWS CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python and Ansible, while identifying opportunities to improve resource utilisation and infrastructure costs.

- Provide technical leadership across complex incident resolution, root-cause analysis, security and vulnerability remediation, monitoring and observability, change management and vendor escalation, while maintaining accurate platform architecture, operational, recovery and support documentation.

Requirements:

- Experience implementing and managing enterprise compute, virtualisation, private cloud or hybrid-cloud platforms, with demonstrated capability planning and delivering platform patching, upgrades, maintenance, migrations, refreshes and retirement activities.

- Practical experience across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and VMware technologies, including Azure compute, monitoring, governance, identity and backup services; AWS compute, systems management, monitoring, identity and availability services; and VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server and clustering.

- Understanding of the broader infrastructure ecosystem, including Microsoft Windows Server and Linux, enterprise storage, networking, application hosting, backup, identity, security and hybrid connectivity, and use a structured approach to diagnosing complex infrastructure and application-hosting issues.

- Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code technologies such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, Bicep or AWS CloudFormation, along with monitoring and observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, VMware Aria Operations, Splunk, Elastic, Grafana or Prometheus.

- Ability to lead complex infrastructure activities and work inclusively across multidisciplinary teams, bringing an understanding of platform hardening, privileged access, vulnerability management, service management, capacity and availability alongside clear communication, documentation, planning and prioritisation skills.

Benefits:

- 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.

- Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

- Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.

- Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.

- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.

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## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services
- VMware
- Terraform
- Bicep
- AWS CloudFormation
- PowerShell
- Python
- Ansible
- Azure Monitor
- AWS CloudWatch
- VMware Aria Operations
- Splunk
- Elastic
- Grafana
- Prometheus

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