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Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (Platform, Operator Systems, and DevSecOps)

Job Code: 40437

Job Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Job Schedule: 9/80 schedule (Every Other Friday Off)

Job Description:

The Lead Software Engineer, Platform, Operator Systems, and DevSecOps, is a hands-on technical lead for a new program and leads a small software engineering team building the initial shared platform and operator-systems baseline. GBRD is a L3Harris radar software modernization effort focused on delivering a common, open-interfaces baseline that supports Missile Warning, Missile Defense, and Space Domain Awareness missions through shared backend services, equipment integration, workflow orchestration, secure delivery automation, and operator-facing status integration. Using broad experience across platform, integration, automation, and operator systems, the role provides technical leadership for a consolidated team that keeps the broader GBRD baseline buildable, operable, and coherent. The team's mission is to provide the common services, equipment-facing control seams, automation, and operator-system integration, including coordination around React-based operator workflows, status views, and control interfaces, that let mission and signal-processing software run reliably across lab and field-representative environments.

Essential Functions

• Lead a hands-on software engineering team delivering shared platform, operator-system integration, and secure-delivery capabilities for a new program initial implementation.
• Make architecture decisions within the team scope and represent backend, platform, workflow, and operator-integration tradeoffs in cross-team and program-level architecture discussions.
• Contribute directly to implementation, peer review, interface closure, integration planning, troubleshooting, and technical risk reduction.
• Coordinate across teams to keep common services, interfaces, and operator-facing behavior aligned and operationally coherent across the baseline.
• Drive development of shared platform services, equipment integration, workflow automation, secure delivery, observability, and operator-system integration across the baseline.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of technical leadership experience leading small engineering teams in software delivery.
• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience, or Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience, or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Experience with shared backend services, event-driven or message-oriented architectures, or interface-contract definition across multiple teams or suppliers.
• Experience developing and integrating platform or operator-system software, with depth in one or more of these areas:
• shared backend or distributed platform software
• Equipment control, device interfaces, or representative simulators
• Workflow orchestration or recovery automation
• DevSecOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes-based platform automation, or secure software delivery
• Human-machine interface or operator-console integration using React or similar modern UI frameworks
• Experience with distributed or interface-heavy mission systems in Linux environments.
• Experience with modern UI frameworks and client technologies such as React.
• Proficiency in backend systems programming languages such as C++ and Go.
• Familiarity with identity federation, workload identity, policy-enforcement patterns, audit-event design, or least-privilege access controls.
• Experience with configuration frameworks that support baseline and location-unique behavior.
• Experience with equipment-control software, hardware-control systems, timing-sensitive interfaces, or mixed hardware-and-simulator integration labs.
• Experience with fault injection, degraded-mode testing, maintenance or safe-mode behavior, simulator adequacy assessment, or compare-to-hardware validation.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, configuration-driven automation, calibration flows, startup or recovery automation, or operator-visible automation for mission systems.
• Experience operating in air-gapped or restricted development environments using Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, artifact registries, package mirrors, or similar platform tooling.
• Experience integrating code-quality, test, compliance, vulnerability-scanning, signed-artifact, or release-governance gates into delivery pipelines.
• Experience with operator consoles, status displays, or control-room software in defense, aerospace, or industrial environments.
• Familiarity with front-end state management, UI test automation, or performance tuning for complex operational interfaces.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in Colorado state is $117,000-$218,000. 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.

The application window for this position will close on 9/30/2026.

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