Lead, DevOps Cloud Software Engineer

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Harris 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. L3

Harris 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.

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Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title:
Lead, Chief Software Engineer / AWS Dev Ops Cloud

Job Code: 31973

Job Location:
Colorado Springs, CO

As the prime integrator of the National Space Test & Training Range Orbital (NSTTC-O) for the United States Space Force, L3

Harris is looking for a candidate to develop and sustain the Range Control Software (RCS) integration environment as part of a cross-functional Dev Sec Ops  team. L3

Harris is seeking professionals to work in a dynamic environment to solve challenging technical problems. Individuals will perform RCS system automation design, development, implementation, test, configuration management, sustainment, and customer support. The ideal candidate should have experience with the full software development lifecycle and cloud-based infrastructure automation using Ansible.

Essential Functions:

• Chief Software Engineer with an active development role, providing oversight and technical leadership to software development projects to ensure quality and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Serve as a Product Owner, facilitating Agile software development processes and ensuring that software products meet high standards of usability, functionality, and scalability.
• Design, develop, and test software applications for large-scale operational systems.
• Responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within the job area.
• Work consists of making moderate to substantial improvement or enhancements to systems and processes to improve performance within the job area.
• Communicates within and outside of own function or business area and is responsible for communicating with parties external to the organization.
• Demonstrated experience in a Chief Software Engineer role, providing technical leadership and oversight on large-scale software projects.
• Proven ability to act as a SAFe Product Owner, managing Agile software development processes to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery.
• Work with Dev Ops team to design and deploy Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines in hybrid virtual machine and Kubernetes environments.
• Deliver automation to provision and deploy complex systems in commercial and private clouds.
• Utilize software languages such as Python, Ruby, and Groovy to accomplish automation customization.
• Utilize a mixture of Windows and Linux environments.
• Maintain Top Secret Clearance, which requires U.S. Citizenship.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• DoD Top Secret or TS/SCI Clearance.
• 6-9 years experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) including basic services such as EC2, S3, AMIs, and VPCs.
• Experience documenting operations and maintenance activities.
• Experience with system compliance requirements implementation per Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IAC) using Ansible and/or Puppet.
• Experience using open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes/Docker or others.
• Experience scripting in Power Shell or Python to perform common tasks that aid in building automation.
• Experience with Agile software development and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience utilizing team collaboration tools (Confluence, Jira, Git).
• Experience developing and deploying software using a CI/CD…