Specialist, Software Engineering 1

We are seeking a mid-level Software Engineer with a DevOps focus to join our L3Harris Broadband Communications Systems team in Salt Lake City, Utah.   The successful candidate will work as an integral member of our DevOps team working with 5 -7 other DevOps engineers serving two distinct environments in the unclassified and classified space. Typical day-to-day activities include CI/CD pipeline maintenance, deployment and system configuration automation, and containerization optimization. Work is done using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.  We are mission focused, agile, and innovative and require these traits in the successful candidate as well.

Essential Functions: 

• Analyzing, designing, developing release automation for deployment using Salt, Ansible and Puppet
• Work with DevOps team to design and deploy Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines in hybrid virtual machine and Kubernetes deployment targets
• Build tools as needed to improve automation, reduce occurrences of errors, and continuously improve our pipeline
• Ensure all systems security operations and maintenance activities are properly documented and updated as necessary
• Support integration of disparate systems for customer end systems in an air-gapped environments
• Ability to work independently or as part of a multi-disciplinary team, adhering to development processes
• Excellent computer skills
• Excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written
• Promote DevOps as a culture

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 4 years of software experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience.  In lieu of degree, 8 years of software experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

• “Relevant Experience” means demonstrable experience at the level requested in the following areas:
  • Infrastructure-as-code (IAC) using Salt, Ansible and Puppet
  • Developing CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins files and/or Gitlab-CI
  • Application containerization and Docker, Podman, Vagrant, Kubernetes and/or Apache Mesos/Marathon integration
  • Utilizing, and developing in, both Windows and Unix environments
  • Working knowledge of software engineering and quality assurance processes 
  • Technical background in software development (language agnostic)
• Due to the nature of our work qualified candidates must have or be able to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.   

• Experience with bash, Linux build debugging
• Experience in Git, make, cmake, C++ building and linking
• Familiarity with Platform One tools
• Experience with RHEL 7/8 Environments
• RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Microsoft System Administrator (MCSA)
• Experience Configuring Network Interfaces
• Knowledge of Network Firewalls and Port Mappings
• Experience with Security Protocols such as SELinux and Security Scans