Software Engineer / Developer

Software Engineer / Developer

•  Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.​
• Work with world leading technology business at the forefront of innovation.

• We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.  

 Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers  

Do Work That Matters 

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life.  Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.  

Your New Role and Responsibilities  

We seek Software Engineers to join the Intelligence support team. We support the Australian Government's classified programs with modern IT systems, including mission-critical classified systems that cover a wide breadth of software engineering disciplines. 

•  Collaborate and innovate with our talented cross-functional and cross-domain teams, developing and supporting compelling software solutions, constantly refining our approach and methods
• Design innovative software solutions to complex problems
• Participate in/lead agile story mapping and estimation
• Integrate and deploy complex systems using SecDevOps practices
• Undertake web focused User Interface development and User Experience evolution
• Research, prototype, investigate and develop technologies and systems
• Have the opportunity to lead or contribute to customer demonstrations, engagement and innovation activities and initiatives and business development responses

What You’ll Bring to Make An Impact  

We are looking for experience with Agile, Scrum, and associated methodologies. In addition, you will have:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering (with software engineering experience) - desirable

• Integration with external systems/applications (REST API, integration protocols, JSON/XML)
• Integration and customisation of open source technologies (NiFi, Kafka, Elastic (ELK) Stack, Solr)
• CI/CD tools and technologies and infrastructure as code (Ansible, Jenkins, git)
• Java and related open-source frameworks
• Containerisation using Docker, Kubernetes
• JIRA and Confluence

Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application.  We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.  

This role does requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active TSPV Clearance.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose 

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia. 

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.  

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community. 

Next Steps 

• To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.  

• Recruitment process - 1 virtual interview or 1 face to face, a psychometric test & background checks. 

• Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1. 

• We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team [email protected] if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.