Cloud Solutions Architect

L3HHCM20 • Herndon, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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 a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior