Specialist, Software Engineering

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software for satellite ground systems, including TT&C, mission management, data ingest, processing pipelines, and operator workflows.
• Maintain and enhance our Kubernetes-based cloud architecture.
• Support Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions including single sign on, active directory, or Keycloak.
• Write and maintain comprehensive documentation for developers, administrators, and operators.
• Ensure consistency across the baseline (version tagging, naming schemes).
• Develop secure, reliable, and maintainable software using modern engineering and DevSecOps practices.
• Write automated unit, integration, and system tests, including negative and failure-mode scenarios.
• Collaborate with mission operations, systems engineering, cybersecurity, and test teams to deliver operationally ready capabilities.
• Contribute to documentation including requirements traceability, interface control documentation, design artifacts, and user/developer guides.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Experience developing and deploying containerized applications using Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or equivalent.
• Experience with the Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) and Custom Resource Definitions (CRD)
• Experience of networking principles and security best practices in an AWS cloud environment
• Experience with Linux environments, including scripting, configuration, and software deployment.
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CDK, OpenTofu, Cloud Formation).
• Experience with container deployment including YAML manifests, Helm and ArgoCD

Preferred Additional Skills

• Familiarity with Agile workflow tools and collaborative version-control practices (Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• Experience with container observability tools such as Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana
• Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes package management
• Experience with security best practices in cloud environments
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Splunk, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Associate

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

9/80