Specialist, Software Engineer

Job Description

**Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software 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:**

* Design and maintain secure, scalable cloud and on-premises infrastructure environments.
* Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for mobile, backend, and platform services.
* Develop deployment workflows suitable for disconnected, restricted, or air-gapped environments.
* Automate provisioning and operational workflows using Infrastructure-as-Code.
* Manage container orchestration platforms and deployment tooling.
* Improve system observability through logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
* Support infrastructure and platform operations within high-security environments.
* Work with engineering teams to improve reliability, deployment velocity, and operational resilience and support security hardening, vulnerability remediation, patching, and compliance requirements.
* Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues across development, staging, production, and customer-representative environments.
* Participate in technical planning, platform evolution, and operational readiness activities and document infrastructure standards, operational procedures, disaster recovery processes, and security controls.
* Ability to obtain and maintain security clearance.

**Qualifications:**

* Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

**Preferred Additional Skills:**

* Strong experience with Linux systems administration and automation.
* Experience supporting on-premises infrastructure and customer-representative environments and experience operating in restricted, classified, or air-gapped environments.
* Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
* Experience with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
* Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI or similar and strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
* Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
* Understanding of networking, security principles, identity management, and zero-trust environments.
* Familiarity with secure artifact management and offline deployment workflows.
* Ability to work effectively in cross-functional engineering teams and strong written and verbal communication skills.
* 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

* Experience supporting regulated or mission-critical environments.
* Experience with mobile application delivery pipelines.
* Experience with secure software supply chain practices.
* Familiarity with GitOps workflows and platform engineering concepts.
* Experience working in government or defense-adjacent environments.

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.  

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