Senior Specialist Security Research/DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Security Research/ DevOps 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 with a minimum 6 years prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 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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