OpenShift Platform Engineer

About Leidos Australia 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. Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years.

We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter. Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work. This includes: 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. And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive. About the Team You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.

We deliver secure, resilient and innovative technology services that enable Defence enterprise and warfighting capabilities across multiple classified domains and networks. We provide world-class ICT operations and agile digital modernisation using advanced analytics, automation, hybrid cloud, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, cybersecurity and AI to optimise highly complex, mission-critical environments.

The Opportunity As an OpenShift Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, delivering, and evolving a secure, scalable container platform that enables development teams to build, deploy, and operate critical applications with confidence. Working within a collaborative cloud and infrastructure team, you will help shape modern platform capabilities that support business and customer outcomes.

Design, implement, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift platform services across complex enterprise environments, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence. Collaborate with application, DevOps, cloud, security, and infrastructure teams to streamline deployment pipelines, improve platform adoption, and enhance the developer experience. Automate platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code and modern engineering practices.

Contribute to platform strategy, continuous improvement initiatives, and operational support activities while promoting best practices for virtualisation, containerisation, observability, resilience, and cloud-native delivery. About You You are passionate about modern platform engineering and enjoy creating reliable, secure environments that enable teams to deliver value faster. You bring a balance of technical capability, collaboration, and continuous improvement, with a focus on delivering practical outcomes in complex environments.

Essential Experience designing, deploying, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift based contai