Lead, Cloud Software Engineer (MELBOURNE)

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L3Harris 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: Lead, Cloud Software Engineer 

Job Code: 37242

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

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

Job Description:  

The Mission Networks Cloud Engineering team is growing experienced a Senior Software Engineer to leverage Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) in delivering solutions to improve customer operations and to provide information management services. The team values strong knowledge of software development best practices and experience delivering & deploying Cloud based applications and services. As a member of the L3Harris team, you will work alongside various cross-functional teams to help define requirements, software architectures, APIs, serverless frameworks and libraries to ensure the mission critical readiness of programs. You will collaborate as part of a development team to implement Cloud solutions while following proven best practices. The team may work on tasks such as fast prototyping, researching COTS products for integration to L3Harris Cloud applications, or implementing & deploying solutions to meet requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Lead tasks related to design, development and integration of Cloud software applications in an Agile development environment. Develop Cloud based applications and configure the deployment environments to achieve end-to-end integration between Cloud and Non-Cloud components.
• Implement applications satisfying both the program requirements and the business vision & roadmap for Cloud technologies.
• Coordinate with development team and customers to review designs and estimates, including identifying and documenting risks, assumptions and limitations.
• Leverage DevOps concepts and best practices to build and continuously improve the automated build, test and deployment environments for the applications.
• Provide operational support for applications and tools to meet high availability and other SLAs.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying microservices to a Kubernetes based environments such as EKS, OpenShift, etc.
• Knowledge of microservice architectural patterns.
• Perform in cloud environments with focus on containerized workloads, databases, and object storage.
• Develop scalable, highly-available enterprise systems, ideally for Cloud.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an FAA public trust clearance.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with a minimum 6-9 years software experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4-7 years of software experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10-12 years of software experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 5+ years Cloud Software Developer
• 5+ years OOP (Java, C++, Python)
• 3 years’ experience of Java software development including the use of Web Services, JMS, and application servers and JavaScript development with in- depth knowledge of NodeJS or ReactJS
• 3 years’ experience developing applications that leverage relational and noSQL databases.
• Experience with DevOps tools and concepts, including but not limited to: Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Git, Nexus, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines & automation.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) or similar for other Cloud providers