# Software Engineer | 4-month contract

**Company**: Leidos Australia
**Location**: Canberra, Melbourne, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join a collaborative engineering environment at Leidos Australia as a Software Engineer on a 4-month contract. You will help build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack, working alongside senior engineers and architects.

The team values integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration, and commitment. You'll contribute to solutions that improve system visibility, incident investigation, and operational resilience across applications, infrastructure, databases, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations that collect logs, metrics, traces, and events from enterprise systems.

- Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts, and reports that support proactive monitoring, performance analysis, and operational decision-making.

- Create scripts and automation that streamline monitoring deployment, configuration management, and recurring operational activities.

- Use observability data to support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, while contributing to technical documentation, engineering reviews, and continuous improvements in monitoring coverage and alert quality.

Requirements:

- Knowledge of software engineering principles, scripting, and system integration concepts.

- Experience developing or maintaining scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, or a comparable language.

- Understanding of operating systems, networking, virtual machines, containers, or cloud services.

- Awareness of relational or non-relational databases and foundational database performance concepts.

- Ability to analyse system behaviour, investigate technical issues, and contribute to resolution activities.

- Ability to collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, database administrators, and operational stakeholders.

- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.

- Awareness of security, compliance, and operational resilience in enterprise environments.

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.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- scripting
- system integration
- Python
- PowerShell
- JavaScript
- operating systems
- networking
- virtual machines
- containers
- cloud services
- relational databases
- non-relational databases
- database performance

### Nice to have
- Elasticsearch
- Kibana
- Logstash
- Beats
- Elastic Agent
- Linux administration
- Windows administration
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Git
- CI/CD pipelines
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- AppDynamics

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