Level 3 Communications, Inc

Scientist, Software Engineer / Cloud Architect

Level 3 Communications, Inc • $120K — $145K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or Graduate Degree with 10+ years, or 16 years of software experience without a degree.
  • 5+ years leading software teams for enterprise solutions involving RESTful Web Services and Microservices.
  • 3+ years experience using Cloud Service Providers (AWS preferred) to host solutions and utilize Containers, IaC, and Security Groups.
  • 3+ years designing scalable infrastructures and automated deployments in Cloud environments with tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Certifications in AWS Solutions Architect and AWS SysOps; Kubernetes Administrator certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Support business development by writing white papers and participating in proposal responses.
  • Interface with customers to understand requirements and design Cloud solutions.
  • Design large-scale distributed systems using microservices and containers.
  • Create and maintain virtualized and Cloud-ready environments for software teams.
  • Work with security teams to implement necessary security controls.
  • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on Cloud, Microservices, and DevSecOps.
  • Provide hands-on assistance to teams for development of awarded programs.

Benefits

  • 9/80 work schedule allowing every other Friday off.
  • Opportunity to work on critical telecommunications systems for air traffic control and state agencies.
  • Access to latest cloud technologies with major providers.
  • Engagement in full systems development lifecycle from design to testing.
  • Potential for hands-on implementation experience and technical leadership.
Full Job Description
Job Title: Scientist, Software Engineer / Cloud Architect

Job Code: 45367

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:

L3Harris has an immediate opening for an experienced Cloud Software Architect to join the Mission Networks team that provides modern, secure, reliable and resilient telecommunications networks and information management systems. The team develops critical communication capabilities for air traffic control, air-to-ground data communication, secure access to situational awareness data and secure information sharing to state agencies.

The Mission Networks Cloud team leverages Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) in delivering modern solutions to support customer operations and information management services. We value a strong knowledge of software development best practices and experience delivering & deploying Cloud ready applications and services.

The Cloud Software Architect will work with internal and external customers to design, develop, and field Cloud architectures that meet the systems requirements and be involved through the systems development lifecycle, including pursuit, developing a technical baseline, developing requirements, system level software design, integration support, and system level testing and selloff. Provide hands-on assistance to implementation and R&D teams to execute the development of awarded programs. Serve as technical expert in latest industry trends, tools and methodologies to continuously improve the delivery 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.
  • Provide hands-on assistance to individual contributors to execute the development of awarded programs.
  • 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.
  • Provide hands-on assistance to individual contributors to execute the development of awarded programs.
  • Serve as technical expert in latest industry trends, tools and methodologies to continuously improve the delivery of our solutions.
  • Work with internal and external customers to design, develop, and field Cloud architectures.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain an FAA public trust which requires U.S. Citizenship.


Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of degree, 16 years of software experience.


Preferred Additional Skills:
  • 5+ years leading software 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)

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