Capacity manager

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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

The Capacity Manager is accountable for the capacity management function for storage and virtual hosting services delivered by Leidos to multiple government departments. The role ensures storage and virtual hosting capacity is planned, provisioned, monitored, and optimised to meet ATO business demand, contracted service levels, and cost objectives. The role provides end‑to‑end oversight of storage and virtual hosting allocation, ensuring that capacity decisions are transparent, governed, and aligned to processes. The Capacity Manager acts as the authoritative point for storage and virtual hosting capacity forecasting, lifecycle planning, and capacity‑related decision support across Leidos, customer teams, and vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain capacity models for storage and virtual hosting, including utilisation, forecasting and risk identification.
• Translate business demand into validated capacity requirements and ensure forecasts inform procurement, lifecycle planning and budgeting.
• Govern capacity allocation processes, ensuring all changes are assessed, approved and aligned with standards.
• Monitor performance, availability and capacity risks, driving optimisation and mitigation actions across infrastructure teams.
• Deliver reporting, stakeholder input and support for incidents, audits, lifecycle planning and strategic capacity management initiatives.

About You and What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated experience in ITIL Capacity Management within large-scale enterprise or government environments.
• Strong understanding of capacity modelling, forecasting, trend analysis and lifecycle planning for enterprise platforms.
• Ability to communicate complex technical capacity insights in a clear, business-focused manner.
• Experience working within formal governance, change and regulated environments, including multi-provider infrastructure (on-premises and cloud).
• Proficiency in reporting and visualisation tools (e.g. Grafana), with relevant ITIL certification or equivalent experience.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum Baseline level security clearance.

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.

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