Scientist, Software Engineer​/Cloud Architect

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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.

Scientist, Software Engineer / Cloud Architect

33297

Melbourne, FL

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

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Harris has an immediate opening for an experienced Cloud Software Architect to join the Mission Networks team that provides modern, secure, reliable and resilient telecommunications networks and information management systems. The team develops critical communication capabilities for air traffic control, air‑to‑ground data communication, secure access to situational awareness data and secure information sharing to state agencies.

The Mission Networks Cloud 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.

The Cloud Software Architect will work with internal and external customers to design, develop, and field Cloud architectures that meet the systems requirements and be involved through the systems development lifecycle, including pursuit, developing a technical baseline, developing requirements, system level software design, integration support, and system level testing and selloff. Provide hands‑on assistance to implementation and R&D teams to execute the development of awarded programs.

Serve as technical expert in latest industry trends, tools and methodologies to continuously improve the delivery of our solutions.

• Support Business Development team by writing white papers, performing trade studies, participating in fast prototyping and writing technical responses for proposals & new program pursuits.
• Interface with customers to understand use cases and define requirements, design Cloud capable solutions, support system level testing, and field the solution in customer environments to support the mission.
• Leverage existing domain experience hosting solutions in Cloud environments.
• Design large‑scale distributed systems using microservices and containers.
• Provide hands‑on assistance to individual contributors to execute the development of awarded programs.
• Create and maintain virtualized, containerized and/or Cloud ready environments used by the software teams. This includes periodic updates to components and tools to stay current with latest revisions and security updates.
• Work with security teams to help define and implement security controls.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on Cloud, Microservices, IaC, and Dev Sec Ops  topics to lead teams in supporting enterprise solutions.
• Provide hands‑on assistance to individual contributors to execute the development of awarded programs.
• Serve as technical expert in latest industry trends, tools and methodologies to continuously improve the delivery of our solutions.
• Work with internal and external customers to design, develop, and field Cloud architectures.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an FAA public trust which requires U.S. Citizenship.

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of degree, 16 years of software experience.

• 5+ years leading software teams to deliver enterprise solutions…