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Your New Role and Responsibilities This technical role is responsible for assuring the reliability, availability, security, and operational performance of a mission-critical health platform delivered across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
The SRE and Platform Engineer applies site reliability engineering, platform engineering, and secure systems integration practices to support a complex health capability.
The role develops measurable evidence—including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, resilience tests, operational telemetry, and trend analysis—to demonstrate that platforms are reliable, interoperable, compliant, and ready for operational use.
The role works directly with clinical, engineering, security, and operational teams to translate clinical service needs into reliable technical outcomes.
It investigates system behaviour, validates integration health, automates repeatable controls, and produces evidence that reliability risks are understood and managed.
This role is critical to providing clinical teams with secure, secure, and observable systems that support safe decision-making and continuity of care.
Its success is demonstrated through objective reliability evidence, reduced operational risk, and sustained platform performance.




Key Responsibilities Perform Site Reliability Engineering and platform operations across cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, security, performance, and compliance with architectural standards.
Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; lead incident response, escalation, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements to enhance platform reliability and reduce MTTD/MTTR.
Drive platform engineering excellence through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automation, self-healing operations, and modern DevSecOps practices.
Lead deployment and integration of new health capabilities into customer environments, ensuring interoperability, operational readiness, and successful delivery of complex platform uplift programs.
About You and What You'll Bring Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, or environment management, including multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, CI/CD, automation, and DevSecOps practices.
Proven capability managing mission-critical, high-availability enterprise environments, including implementation of SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), incident management, system integration, interoperability, networking, and database platforms.
Experience working in Defence, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of ITIL or structured service management frameworks and a strong focus on security, compliance, resilience, and service continuity.
Willingness to participate in on-call rotations, after-hours support, and work within secure/classified environments.
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📌 Site Reliability Engineering And Platform Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 00160 Leidos Australia
📍 Melbourne