Specialist, Systems Engineering
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.
About the role
We are seeking a Specialist - Systems Engineer (Level 3) to serve in a DevOps integration role supporting the design, modernization, and sustainment of DevOps Network Infrastructure. This includes 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. This role is contingent upon contract award, anticipated October 2026.
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 and minimum 4 years of prior relevant engineering experience OR.
- Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related engineering experience OR.
- In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 8 years of prior related engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience with DevOps integration.
- Demonstrated experience with DevOps network.
- Excellent written, oral, and presentation communications skills.
- Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI Security clearance.
Skills
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Demonstrated experience with GitLab
- Demonstrated experience with VSCode
- Demonstrated experience with Python
- Demonstrated experience with PowerShell
- Demonstrated experience with Jfrog
- Demonstrated experience with RHEL
- Demonstrated experience with Artifactory
- Demonstrated experience with CI/CD Pipelines
- Demonstrated experience with Nexus
- CompTIA Security+ Certification
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance
Schedule
9/80 – Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off.