Scientist, Software Engineer - Software Cloud Architect

Job Description :

L3Harris has an immediate opening for an experienced Cloud Software Architect to join the Mission Networks team that provides modern, secure, reliable and resilient telecommunications networks and information management systems.

The team develops critical communication capabilities for air traffic control, air-to-ground data communication, secure access to situational awareness data and secure information sharing to state agencies.

The Mission Networks Cloud team leverages Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) in delivering modern solutions to support customer operations and information management services.

We value a strong knowledge of software development best practices and experience delivering & deploying Cloud ready applications and services.

The Cloud Software Architect will work with internal and external customers to design, develop, and field Cloud architectures that meet the systems requirements and be involved through the systems development lifecycle, including pursuit, developing a technical baseline, developing requirements, system level software design, integration support, and system level testing and selloff.

Provide hands-on assistance to implementation and R&D teams to execute the development of awarded programs. Serve as technical expert in latest industry trends, tools and methodologies to continuously improve the delivery of our solutions.

At L3Harris Technologies we understand the benefits of a flexible work environment. Employees may be able to work a hybrid schedule with the understanding that the employee may be required to attend team meetings and key events in person when deemed appropriate by the business.

Essential Functions :

• Support Business Development team by writing white papers, performing trade studies, participating in fast prototyping and writing technical responses for proposals & new program pursuits
• Interface with customers to understand use cases and define requirements, design Cloud capable solutions, support system level testing, and field the solution in customer environments to support the mission
• Leverage existing domain experience hosting solutions in Cloud environments
• Design large-scale distributed systems using microservices and containers
• Create and maintain virtualized, containerized and / or Cloud ready environments used by the software teams. This includes periodic updates to components and tools to stay current with latest revisions and security updates
• Work with security teams to help define and implement security controls
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on Cloud, Microservices, IaC, and DevSecOps topics to lead teams in supporting enterprise solutions

Qualifications :

Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

In Lieu of degree, minimum 16 years of experience.

• 5+ years leading software teams to deliver enterprise solutions that implement RESTful Web Services, Microservices and / or Cloud components (AWS preferred).
• 3+ years of experience in leveraging CSPs to host Cloud based solutions involving Cloud computing, Containers, VPC, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Security Groups
• 3+ years designing a scalable infrastructure and automated deployment in Cloud environments leveraging tools to support pipelines and containers such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.

Preferred Additional Skills :

• Ability to obtain and maintain an FAA public trust or Top Secret clearance
• AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Sys Ops certification(s)
• Kubernetes Administrator certification(s)
• Experience using scripting languages such as Python, Bash or other shell scripting
• Experience developing applications that leverage relational and noSQL databases (Cassandra, MariaDB, InfluxDB, EnterpriseDB)
• Experience with IaC tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet or Ansible
• Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban)
30+ days ago