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.