Senior Specialist, Systems Engineering - DevOps

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech, delivering end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Specialist - Systems Engineer (Level 4) to serve in a DevOps integration role supporting the design, modernization, and sustainment of DevOps Network Infrastructure. This includes the planning, configuration, implementation, management, and maintenance of network systems and hardware. The role ensures the reliability, security, performance, and scalability of network operations while collaborating with cross-functional teams to support current infrastructure requirements and future growth.

Responsibilities

• Translate the voice of the customer into system-level requirements.
• Support systems engineering activities across the program lifecycle, including requirements development, architecture definition, interface management, integration, verification, validation, deployment, and sustainment.
• Support technical baseline development, trade studies, architecture decisions, and design reviews for complex communications systems.
• Develop, review, and maintain technical documentation, including specifications, interface control documents, architecture artifacts, test plans, procedures, verification strategies, and technical reports.
• Provide technical direction to cross-functional teams and review engineering work products across multiple disciplines.
• Perform troubleshooting, design, implementation, and testing activities of WAN/LAN/SATCOM-based networks systems.
• Build and test proof-of-concept solutions for deployment workflows, repository interactions, and pipeline operations.
• Support regression efforts, test procedure improvements, and integration troubleshooting in lab and platform environments.
• Research, prototype, and implement CI/CD pipeline capabilities to support build, validation, packaging, and deployment workflows.
• Support demos, technical briefings, and status discussions with internal teams, leadership, and customers as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related field and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps integration and DevOps network.
• Excellent written, oral, and presentation communications skills.
• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI Security clearance.

Skills

• GitLab
• VSCode
• Python
• PowerShell
• Jfrog
• RHEL
• Artifactory
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Nexus
• CompTIA Security+ Certification
• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance (preferred)

Schedule

9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off.