Technical Lead

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.

Mission Software Systems (MSS) brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle, from planning through to dissemination and feedback. The team fosters a culture of innovation, leveraging modern engineering practices and shared infrastructure to rapidly build, test, and deploy software solutions across a range of environments, including cloud. MSS also plays a key role in advancing technology modernisation within Government, delivering scalable and adaptable solutions for complex enterprise challenges.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will lead the technical delivery of complex software solutions into secure, standalone environments. You will provide technical direction to multidisciplinary teams of software and platform engineers, connect architecture with implementation, and resolve issues spanning applications, container platforms, infrastructure services and integration workstreams.

• Lead technical planning, solution design and implementation across software uplift, platform migration, integration and deployment activities.
• Own the technical approach, ensuring application, platform, security and integration activities remain aligned across delivery workstreams.
• Coordinate technical readiness across build, test and production environments, including deployment dependencies, release inputs and transition into operational support.
• Guide the adaptation of existing applications for secure environments while maintaining common source code baselines and separating environment-specific configuration from core application logic.
• Manage technical dependencies across applications, platforms and infrastructure services, including interfaces, identity services, object storage, artifact repositories and enterprise Git services.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to software and platform engineers delivering containerised solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, GitOps and CI/CD practices.

About You

You combine broad technical understanding with the ability to work through implementation detail when required. You can lead software and platform engineering specialists through application uplift, container platform migration and secure systems integration, while working collaboratively with project leadership to balance technical priorities, delivery needs, security, maintainability and operational readiness.

Essential:

• Experience providing technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams, including software and platform engineers, in complex delivery or integration environments.
• Ability to translate operational, security and business needs into implementable technical solutions and clearly defined engineering work.
• Knowledge of software architecture, APIs and interfaces, authentication and single sign-on, containerised deployment, integration, verification and engineering lifecycle practices.
• Experience leading application and platform migration activities, including technical reviews, trade-off decisions and resolution of cross-domain issues.
• Capability in technical risk assessment, documentation, decision management and communicating impacts to project leadership.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers, architects, engineers, security specialists and project leaders.

Advantageous:

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines and enterprise source code or artifact repositories.
• Knowledge of secure software delivery, vulnerability remediation, configuration management and deployment into restricted or disconnected environments.
• Exposure to large-scale systems integration, application modernisation or migration from one Kubernetes platform to another.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active NV-2 security clearance.

Due to the nature of our work, applicants must be Australian Citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role. Certain roles may be subject International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements which may limit persons who hold dual nationality with certain proscribed countries from accessing material, or in the case of dual Australian-U.S citizens, may require the candidate to obtain a U.S. Persons Abroad authorisation from the U.S DDTC.

If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. We value different experiences and are interested in the capability and potential you could bring.

What to Expect When You Apply

Our hiring process is designed to be straightforward, respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills, experience and qualifications look aligned with the role, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:

• An initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team
• An interview with the hiring manager or interview panel
• Any role-specific assessment, technical discussion or customer step required for the position

We’ll let you know what to expect before each stage, including who you’ll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process, please let us know.

Ready to explore what’s possible?

If this sounds like a role where you can make an impact and continue to grow, we’d like to hear from you. Please apply via the “Apply Now” button with your resume. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact Praveena Sundarakumar, Talent Acquisition.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.