L3Harris

Lead, Software Engineer

L3Harris
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19 hours ago
Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+

Base Salary

$117k - $256k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and improve DevSecOps pipelines supporting build, test, security, release, and deployment activities.
  • Standardize and automate the software development lifecycle across development, integration, and production-like environments.
  • Support cloud and on-premises platform operations, deployment automation, troubleshooting, patching, and reliability improvements.
  • Integrate automated security scanning, policy checks, secrets handling, secure-by-default patterns, and least-privilege behavior into delivery workflows.
  • Develop infrastructure as code, configuration management, repeatable environment provisioning, logging, monitoring, and operational visibility solutions.
  • Design and improve AI services, APIs, workflow components, agentic workflows, LLM tool-use patterns, enterprise integrations, and policy guardrails.
  • Improve testing, evaluation, observability, traceability, auditability, and runtime diagnostics for AI-enabled workflows and model-assisted outputs.
  • Mentor peers and collaborate with software, cyber, infrastructure, operations, and program teams.

Requirements

  • Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
  • Bachelor’s degree with 9 years of relevant experience, graduate degree with 7 years of related experience, or 13 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience with CI/CD, build, release, test automation, platform engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps in a software environment.
  • Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Java.
  • Experience with source control and CI/CD platforms such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or Bamboo.
  • Experience with Linux administration or cloud-hosted environments.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, containerization, or orchestration.
  • Experience troubleshooting technical issues and collaborating across software, infrastructure, operations, and security teams.
  • Experience with AI-enabled automation, AI-assisted software delivery, ML platform support, or integrating AI/ML services into engineering workflows.
  • Preferred experience includes MCP integrations, agent frameworks, application or supply-chain security, container and platform technologies, observability and AI evaluation pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Agile or Scrum, and classified or mission-critical environments.

Benefits

  • Work locations are Chantilly, Virginia; Melbourne, Florida; or Rochester, New York.
  • The 9/80 schedule provides every other Friday off while working 80 hours across 9 of every 14 days.
  • Benefits include health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
  • Benefit availability may vary by hire date, schedule type, and applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSBambooBashDockerHelmJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPowerShellPythonTerraform
L3Harris

About L3Harris

10,000+ employees

L3Harris Technologies designs and manufactures communications, sensors, avionics, and space systems for defense, intelligence, and commercial aerospace customers, primarily selling to the U.S. and allied governments. The public company (NYSE: LHX) is headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, and was formed in 2019 by the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corporation. Offerings range from tactical radios and electronic warfare to ISR payloads and mission software, plus integration and sustainment services.

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