Software Developer

At Leidos, we do work that really matters inspired by our mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. With 25 years of local experience, our over 2000 team members, work together to solve Australia’s toughest challenges in government, defence, intelligence and border protection. We’re robust and ambitious, and we empower our people to do their best work. You’ll feel inspired by what you can achieve and will be supported by an inclusive and flexible culture that genuinely cares for your wellbeing. Together, we can be the difference.

We've got so much to offer at Leidos, here are a just a few of the Benefits we provide our team:

• 12 Extra Days Leave: Life Days are the Leidos way of recognising that we all need some extra time out to take care of life. By working slightly more than the minimum weekly hours (2 hours per week for full timers) you can accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year.
• Leidos Life Hub provides access to discount offers or cashback rewards with over 400 Australian and International retailers.
• Professional development and support to set you up for success and assist you in achieving your career aspirations.

Our exciting 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

Your New Role

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.

 Your responsibilities will include but not limited to: -

• Design innovative software solutions to complex problems;
• Participate in/lead agile story mapping and estimation;
• Contribute to Continuous Integration processes;
• 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.

Due to the nature of work we do for our customers, all applicants are required to be Australian Citizens and hold a Baseline security clearance with AGSVA and be capable of upgrading to a NV1 security clearance.

About You and What You'll Bring

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.

Experience or exposure to 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
• JIRA and Confluence
• Linux and Windows
• Have an understanding of and be able to apply principles of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

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 Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.