Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Title: Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Code: 37603

Job Location: Herndon VA

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

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to leverage Cloud Service Providers (AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud) in delivering solutions to improve customer operations and provide information management services. As a member of the L3Harris team you will work alongside various cross-functional teams to define requirements architectures APIs serverless frameworks and libraries to ensure the mission critical readiness of programs and Independent Research and Development (IR&D) projects. As Solution Architect you will collaborate with teams to implement Cloud & hybrid solutions while following proven best practices which may include fast prototyping trade studies COTS integration and deployment.

The Cloud Solution Architect will work with internal and external customers to design develop and field Cloud architectures to satisfy customer requirements. Collaboration with cross-functional teams throughout pursuits systems development lifecycle deployment and operational sustainment is integral to this role. As a technical expert in the latest industry trends tools and methodologies the Solutions Architect is essential to continuous optimization and modernization of our solutions.

Essential Functions:

• Support Business Development team by writing white papers performing trade studies participating in fast prototyping and writing technical responses for proposals & new program pursuits.
• Interface with customers to understand use cases and define requirements design Cloud capable solutions support system level testing and field the solution in customer environments to support the mission.
• Leverage existing domain experience hosting solutions in Cloud environments.
• Design large-scale distributed systems using microservices and containers.
• Create and maintain virtualized containerized and/or Cloud ready environments used by the software teams. This includes periodic updates to components and tools to stay current with latest revisions and security updates.
• Work with security teams to help define and implement security controls.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on Cloud Microservices IaC and DevSecOps topics to lead teams in supporting enterprise solutions.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an FAA public trust suitaiblity.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 5 years direct experience leading teams to deliver enterprise solutions that implement RESTful Web Services Microservices and/or Cloud components (AWS preferred).
• 3 years of experience in leveraging CSPs to host Cloud based solutions involving Cloud computing Containers VPC Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Security Groups.
• 3 years designing a scalable infrastructure and automated deployment in Cloud environments leveraging tools to support pipelines and containers such as Jenkins Docker Kubernetes.
• AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Sys Ops certification(s).
• Kubernetes Administrator certification(s).
• Experience using scripting languages such as Python Bash or other shell scripting.
• Experience developing applications that leverage relational and noSQL databases (Cassandra MariaDB InfluxDB EnterpriseDB).
• Experience with IaC tools like CloudFormation Terraform Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile SCRUM Kanban).
• Multi-Cloud Domain experience

The salary range for this role in Virginia is$161500.00 - $300500.00. 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.

#LI-DK2