Intelligence Software Engineer/Developer

Are you a highly cleared (TSPV) talented agile software engineer looking for an exciting new role in either Melbourne or Canberra in Leidos Australia’s Intelligence business line? Our exciting classified programs at Leidos develop and support our Federal Government customers IT systems, including mission critical classified systems that cover a wide breadth of software engineering disciplines including enterprise systems, web applications, cyber security, geospatial systems and real-time signal processing. These are developed using the latest agile processes and industry best practices, leveraging leading commercial and open source frameworks and tools.

In this role you will:

• 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

If you have a desire to expand your career in a dynamic and collaborative workplace that encourages innovation, with a work scope that provides a real sense of purpose, then this role is for you.

We are looking for experience with Agile, Scrum and associated methodologies and it is desirable that  you have a Bachelor Degree (or higher) in Software Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (with software engineering experience), however, we would also like to encourage candidates to apply that have a wide range of industry work experience from 2+ years. In addition, you will have:

• Proven experience tackling and solving challenging and complex engineering problems,
• Experience within an agile development team utilising SCRUM or Kanban
• Demonstrated experience or exposure to all/some of the following:
  • 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
  • Linux and Windows
  • JIRA and Confluence

We cannot wait to hear from you and welcome you into our exciting, mission focused intelligence environment!

We’ve been keeping Australia safer, healthier and more efficient for 25 years, here’s just three ways how

• We’re building the next generation secret end user environment for the Australian Department of Defence across a number of strategic locations around Australia.
• We deliver software development and operational support through to the integration of underwater autonomous vehicles and survey ships to meet mission objectives.
• We support key networks for the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

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.

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are 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.