Job Description

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.

About the Team

You will 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.

The Opportunity

Join a collaborative engineering environment where you will help build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. Working alongside senior engineers and architects, you will contribute to solutions that improve system visibility, incident investigation and operational resilience across applications, infrastructure, databases and cloud environments.

- Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations that collect logs, metrics, traces and events from enterprise systems.
- Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts and reports that support proactive monitoring, performance analysis and operational decision-making.
- Create scripts and automation that streamline monitoring deployment, configuration management and recurring operational activities.
- Use observability data to support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, while contributing to technical documentation, engineering reviews and continuous improvements in monitoring coverage and alert quality.

About You





You are developing your software engineering capability and are interested in using monitoring and observability technologies to solve practical operational challenges. You can work collaboratively across engineering and operational teams, investigate technical issues methodically, and communicate your findings clearly.

Essential

- Knowledge of software engineering principles, scripting and system integration concepts.
- Experience developing or maintaining scripts and automation using Python, PowerShell, JavaScript or a comparable language.
- Understanding of operating systems, networking, virtual machines, containers or cloud services.
- Awareness of relational or non-relational databases and foundational database performance concepts.
- Ability to analyse system behaviour, investigate technical issues and contribute to resolution activities.
- Ability to collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, database administrators and operational stakeholders.
- Transparent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Awareness of security, compliance and operational resilience in enterprise environments.

Advantageous

- Exposure to Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent or another observability platform.




- Experience with Linux or Windows administration and databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL or MongoDB.
- Familiarity with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, and container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk or AppDynamics.

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen and hold an NV-1 security clearance.

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

Ready to explore what is possible?

If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact Praveena Sundarakumar, Talent Acquisition.

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

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📌 Software Engineer | 4-Month Contract (Canberra)
🏢 Leidos Australia
📍 Canberra