# Kubernetes Administrator

**Company**: Leidos Australia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Leidos Australia, you'll play a key role in delivering and sustaining technology solutions that support critical national security outcomes as a Kubernetes Administrator within the AGO GEO SPACES program.

You'll work in a secure, highly regulated environment to ensure the reliability, performance, and resilience of mission-critical platforms, collaborating with engineering and operational teams to maintain exceptional service standards.

Responsibilities:

- Support the availability, capacity, and reliability of on-premises Kubernetes infrastructure and systems.

- Provide Level 2 and Level 3 operational support, leading incident response activities, contributing to root cause analysis, and implementing preventative improvements that enhance system resilience.

- Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging capabilities, using meaningful service metrics, SLOs, and SLIs to drive performance insights and continuous improvement.

- Enhance automation, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD practices across the environment, partnering with development and platform teams to enable consistent, secure, and reliable deployments.

Requirements:

- Experience working as a Kubernetes Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, Systems Engineer, or in a comparable infrastructure-focused role supporting production environments.

- Experience in Linux/UNIX administration, including troubleshooting, performance analysis, and operational support within enterprise environments.

- Capability in developing automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.

- Experience implementing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code and configuration management solutions using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef.

- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability practices, with the ability to use service metrics and operational data to improve reliability and performance.

- Experience supporting virtualised and/or cloud-based environments, including technologies such as VMware, AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.

- Ability to investigate complex incidents, contribute to root cause analysis, and implement sustainable corrective actions.

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
- Kubernetes
- Linux/UNIX
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Puppet
- Chef
- VMware
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI

### Nice to have
- Defence
- National Security
- fault-tolerant systems
- large-scale production systems
- high-availability infrastructure architectures
- DevOps
- platform engineering
- site reliability practices

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