About this role
<p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Code: 38005</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Location: Palm Bay, FL</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Schedule: 9/80</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Job Description:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in -0.25pt;text-indent:-0.5pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, expand your skills and experience, and contribute to the Space Systems Sector of L3Harris. You will join a great team of talented professionals with world class technical expertise who take a collaborative approach to engineering and enjoy working together. We are a company on the move, growing in the Space area; with long history of innovative and exceptional performance, we have earned our place as a trusted provider to our customers. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in -0.25pt;text-indent:-0.5pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in -0.25pt;text-indent:-0.5pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">The SDA T1 infrastructure 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. Seeking software engineers to join our dynamic team, focusing on operating, maintaining, and sustaining an AWS cloud operational system<span style="color:black;background-color:white">.</span></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Essential Functions:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Monitor and implement updates from AWS and third-party suppliers</span></li> <li style="margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Maintain and enhance our Kubernetes-based cloud architecture </span></li> <li style="margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Implement and maintain security automation using AWS EventBridge, GuardDuty, and Inspector</span></li> <li style="margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Support Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions using Keycloak</span></li> <li style="margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Assist in migrating third-party toolchains to AWS native solutions</span></li> <li style="margin-bottom:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0in;margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Assist with the design, build, deployment, and maintenance of cloud and/or hybrid infrastructure necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Design, develop, and maintain advanced software applications for our Satellite Ground Systems. This role involves close collaboration with systems engineers, hardware designers, and other software engineers to deliver reliable and high-performance software solutions. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Design, implement, and test Java-based applications and software components for satellite ground systems.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Lead continuous improvement initiatives, driving adoption of DevOps pipelines, automated testing, containerization (Kubernetes), and cloud deployment practices across the enterprise.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Work collaboratively with systems and SI&T engineers to analyze, implement, and test system modification requests to the existing system baseline.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Ability to obtain a secret clearance</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a">Qualifications:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Bachelor’s Degree 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, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience working in a continuous integration/continuous development environment, and CI/CD pipelines.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience developing and deploying containerized applications using Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or equivalent.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience with the Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) and Custom Resource Definitions (CRD)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience of networking principles and security best practices in an AWS cloud environment</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience with Linux environments, including scripting, configuration, and software deployment.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience with AWS services such as license management</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CDK, OpenTofu, Cloud Formation).</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#32363a"><br>Preferred Additional Skills:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Familiarity with Agile workflow tools and collaborative version‑control practices (Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience with container observability tools such as Prometheus, PromQL, and Grafana </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Experience implementing security best practices in cloud environments</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience managing licenses within cloud environments</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Splunk sidecar, CloudWatch, AWS Forwarder, etc.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:normal;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Associate</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="color:#d9d9d9"><br>#LI-KB1</span></p>