Job Title: Senior Specialist, Security Research/ DevOps Engineer Job Code: 39002 Job Location: Washington DC Job Schedule: 5/8: Employees work 8 hours per day, 5 days per week Job Description: We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help design, automate, secure, and maintain the infrastructure that underpins our next-generation software platforms and customer environments. You will work closely with software engineers, system leads, and platform architects to build scalable CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability tooling, deployment automation, and secure on-premises environments across multiple projects. This role suits someone who is equally comfortable debugging production issues, writing infrastructure-as-code, improving developer workflows, and operating within high-security or air-gapped environments where reliability, traceability, and operational discipline are critical. Essential Functions: <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Design and maintain secure, scalable cloud and on-premises infrastructure environments.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for mobile, backend, and platform services.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Develop deployment workflows suitable for disconnected, restricted, or air-gapped environments.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Automate provisioning and operational workflows using Infrastructure-as-Code.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Manage container orchestration platforms and deployment tooling.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Improve system observability through logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Support infrastructure and platform operations within high-security environments.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Work with engineering teams to improve reliability, deployment velocity, and operational resilience and support security hardening, vulnerability remediation, patching, and compliance requirements.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues across development, staging, production, and customer-representative environments.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Participate in technical planning, platform evolution, and operational readiness activities and document infrastructure standards, operational procedures, disaster recovery processes, and security controls.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Ability to obtain and maintain security clearance. </li> </ul> Qualifications: <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum 6 years prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. </li> </ul> Preferred Additional Skills: <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Strong experience with Linux systems administration and automation.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience supporting on-premises infrastructure and customer-representative environments and experience operating in restricted, classified, or air-gapped environments.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI or similar and strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Understanding of networking, security principles, identity management, and zero-trust environments.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Familiarity with secure artifact management and offline deployment workflows.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Ability to work effectively in cross-functional engineering teams and strong written and verbal communication skills.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or related field) and 4 years of experience or Master's. In lieu of a degree, 8 years of experience in cyber security and software engineering</li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience supporting regulated or mission-critical environments.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with mobile application delivery pipelines.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with secure software supply chain practices.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Familiarity with GitOps workflows and platform engineering concepts.</li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience working in government or defense-adjacent environments.</li> </ul> In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Washington DC is $111,500 - $207,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. #LI-FS1

Senior Specialist, Security Research Engineer (Washington, DC, US, 20004) @ L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

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