Software Engineer | 4-month contract

Opportunity

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrations collecting logs, metrics, traces, and events from enterprise systems.
• Build Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts, and reports for monitoring, performance analysis, and operational decisions.
• Automate monitoring deployment, configuration management, and recurring operations with scripts.
• Use observability data for troubleshooting and root-cause analysis; contribute to documentation, reviews, and monitoring improvements.

Essential requirements

• Know software engineering principles, scripting, and system integration concepts.
• Have experience maintaining or developing automation scripts in Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, or a comparable language.
• Understand operating systems, networking, virtual machines, containers, or cloud services, and database fundamentals.
• Analyse system behaviour, investigate issues, collaborate across teams, and communicate findings clearly.
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing; understand enterprise security, compliance, and resilience.
• Successful applicants must be Australian citizens and hold an NV-1 security clearance.

Advantageous experience

• Exposure to Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent, or another observability platform is advantageous.
• Linux or Windows administration and experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, or MongoDB are advantageous.
• Familiarity with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, or Kubernetes is advantageous.
• Knowledge of Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, or AppDynamics is advantageous.

About Leidos Australia

• Leidos Australia works with government, defence, and national security customers on mission-critical solutions.
• The employer describes flexible work arrangements, wellbeing resources, learning opportunities, and career development.