Technical Lead

Company Description

Every person at Leidos plays an important and valued role bringing science, engineering and technology together to produce practical solutions for our customers’ most complex problems. It’s how we help to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient - work that matters and a mission, like those of our customers, we are passionate about. We’re open minded, ambitious and committed to enabling our people to do their best work, to be inspired by what they can achieve and the impact they can have.

Here in Australia, we’re agile and growing fast. Our 1,400 employees are busy building an enviable reputation for innovation and delivery. And, as part of a US-based organisation with 37,000 people and a 50 year history, we are able to draw upon world-leading technical expertise to help us provide the best solutions to our customers.

**Job Description**:
We are a growing Program team that specialises in IT infrastructure based projects related to end user experience in the Defence space. It’s an exciting time to be in our team, with a strong pipeline of interesting and complex projects. A new initiative within that program is being established to improve printing services. It needs a Technical Lead to take ownership of the entire solution and ensure its technical success.

Our team is very fast paced and work through numerous challenges to deliver client outcomes. We are seeking a dedicated and resilient individual, who embrace hard work, and want to make a difference. In return, you will experience professional growth and work with similar individuals with varying levels of industry experience, management at all levels and various technical SMEs across a broad range of disciplines. We offer training aligned with your role and career path.
- Design and define system architecture for new or existing complex computer systems
- Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions
- Determine systems specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility and maintenance of system security
- Coordinate design of subsystems and integration of total system
- Identify, analyse, and resolve program support deficiencies
- Develop and recommend corrective actions
- Provide technical guidance for database administrators and software developers, and system engineers
- Responsible for delivery of technical components within a given project work stream
- Manages a team of up to ten system engineers on a daily basis
- Establish a full capability lifecycle including DEV/SIT/Pre-Prod/Prod environments
- Adopt modern technologies supporting CI/CD functionality of solution delivery
- Adopt modern technologies supporting automated testing functionality of solution delivery, including unit testing, functional testing, integrated testing, performance testing, stress testing
- Adopt modern technologies supporting PaaS, Infrastructure as Code, SDDC, SDN, etc.
- Implement modern End User Computing solutions, including Win 10 roll-outs, VDI solutions, printing solutions, core services, multifactor authentication, and user experience monitoring solutions.

**Qualifications**:
At least a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with substantial relevant professional experience and specialised training that is commensurate with the assignment.

Relevant certifications or Professional membership would be desirable.

**Key Skills**
- Strong individual contributor and team player in a professional environment
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Advanced level of skill with relevant technologies and domains
- Strong leadership skills
- Good initiative in developing and improving systems and procedures
- Strong problem solving skills with proven ability to, independently or within a team, resolve complex issues to ensure desired outcomes
- Strong conceptual, analytical and interpretive skills with high level of attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all levels and influence key stakeholders

**You will ideally possess significant experience across the following**:

- Physical Infrastructure (storage, compute, network)
- Virtual Infrastructure (storage, compute, network)
- Win10
- SOE
- Citrix
- Full SDLC
- Infrastructure as code
- DevSecOps
- QA (functional, performance, vulnerability, etc.)

**_ Due to the nature of work we do for our customers, all applicants are required to be Australian Citizens and to hold a current NV-1 or NV-2 security clearance with AGSVA._**

Additional Information
**What You’ll Love**

At Leidos, you will be valued, included and supported. So if you are open-minded and keen to be the diffe