Description

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Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life.  Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly experienced MECM professional to join our engineering capability as a Senior Principal MECM Engineer.

This role represents the highest level of technical leadership within the MECM / Endpoint Engineering domain and is responsible for guiding architectural direction, shaping strategy, and supporting the integrity of large-scale endpoint management environments.

You will contribute as a trusted technical leader, offering expert guidance across complex Defence and enterprise environments, supporting solution design, mentoring engineers, and representing Leidos in senior technical forums.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support end-to-end MECM/SCCM technical architecture across enterprise and Defence environments, helping to define and uphold engineering standards, patterns, and best practices, while guiding the design and evolution of highly available, secure, and scalable platforms, and contributing to technical assurance for solution designs, changes, and major releases.

• Guide complex engineering delivery and operations, including MECM implementations, upgrades, migrations, and remediations; support the resolution of critical high-risk issues with significant operational impact; and encourage continuous service improvement, automation, optimisation, and advanced reporting and analytics (SQL, PowerShell, Power BI, and direct database interrogation where required).

• Contribute to governance, assurance, and risk awareness by preparing for and supporting formal engineering and assurance activities (including Microsoft RAPs, audits, and customer reviews), helping ensure alignment with Defence security, configuration management, and change governance requirements, and providing thoughtful input into risk assessments, trade studies, and technical decision-making.

• Act as a senior technical mentor and leader, serving as a supportive escalation point for engineers, contributing to capability uplift across the wider engineering community, and offering technical leadership without requiring direct line management where needed.

• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, working closely with customer executives, architects, and program leadership; representing Leidos as a subject-matter expert in complex technical forums; and translating business and operational requirements into practical, end-to-end technical solutions.

About You and What You’ll Bring

You are a deeply experienced technical professional with a strong track record working at senior engineering levels in complex, regulated environments. You are comfortable guiding architecture, contributing to important decisions, and sharing accountability for technical outcomes.

You bring:

• Extensive experience designing, architecting, and operating enterprise-scale MECM/SCCM environments, with the ability to contribute as a technical authority, supported by a strong systems engineering mindset across the full solution lifecycle.

• Deep technical expertise across endpoint and Microsoft infrastructure, including advanced application packaging, patching, SOE, task sequencing, endpoint security integration, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, WDS, and PowerShell-driven automation-first approaches, alongside enterprise-scale MECM/SCCM operations.

• Advanced platform and reporting capability, including SQL Server (HA/DR), SSRS, advanced reporting techniques, and experience working within virtualised data-centre environments such as VMware and Citrix.

• Experience contributing to governance, assurance, and regulated environments, including engineering governance, configuration management, formal review processes, and delivery within Defence or similarly regulated settings.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build trust and influence direction collaboratively, supported by a tertiary qualification in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience, and relevant professional memberships and certifications (highly desirable).

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a NV-1 level security clearance and be willing and able to uplift to NV-2.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It’s about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is 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.

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Next Steps

• To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.

• Recruitment process – virtual / face to face interview & background checks.

• 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.

• We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team careers.au@au.leidos.com if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process. 

If you’re looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We’re not hiring followers. We’re recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We’re already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That’s why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.

If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.