Specialist, Integration​/Test Engineer

Overview

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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 is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. 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:
Specialist, Integration & Test Engineering

Job Code: 33807

Job Location:
Herndon, VA

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

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Harris Technologies, Inc. is a leading technology innovator, solving customers' toughest mission-critical challenges by providing solutions that connect, inform and protect. L3

Harris supports government and commercial customers around the world. Learn more at

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Harris Surveillance and Automation Solutions Business Area has an opening for a Systems Integration & Test Engineer. The successful candidate will be supporting the ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) program; the space-based extension of ADS-B, Aireon; and other systems being developed by this organization. As a System Integration & Test Engineer, you will be on the team responsible for providing Tier 3 support to the Surveillance and Broadcast Services System (SBSS).

This includes conducting software application deployments and configuration changes across the system; supporting root cause analysis activities; and conducting acceptance testing on software applications and hardware. The working environment is challenging, dynamic, and fast-paced. This position offers hands-on experience in a wide variety of disciplines, including systems integration and test (I&T), networking (supporting vendor with network design and troubleshooting); data processing and analysis;

and troubleshooting issues on the operational system. The role interfaces with multiple engineering disciplines including system engineering, software development, test engineering, in addition to configuration management, remote field technicians, and the customer.

• Provide daily Tier III engineering support (troubleshooting complex operational issues, performing root cause analysis, working with FAA staff, etc.) to a mission critical air traffic control system with a 0.99999 availability requirement.
• Instill process discipline and a culture of accountability focused on customer satisfaction and supreme quality.
• Integrate hardware and software system components within a lab environment.
• Develop test scenarios and conduct acceptance tests for Level 2 requirements of software applications and hardware.
• Integrate remote radios and radars into the operational system while troubleshooting issues such as RF interference, network issues, etc.
• Implement changes to the operational system including deployment of software applications, making adaptation changes, upgrading hardware such as radios, network equipment and servers.
• Develop and maintain deployment schedule with inputs from FAA PMO and L3
  
  Harris Program Management.
• Author and present System Change Proposals to Engineering Review Board and Change Control Boards, identifying deployment strategy, customer impact, and risk assessment.
• Provide direction and help set priorities for the I&T Team related to deployment schedule.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate schedules and identified and quantified risk.
• Host and participate in software configuration reviews.
• Manage and maintain program/project management tools, metrics, and related processes.
• Instill process discipline and a culture of accountability focused on customer satisfaction and supreme quality.
• Works with minimal supervision, manages own time effectively, maintains control over…