Lead, Software Engineer (Platform, Operator Systems, DevSecOps)

L3HHCM20•Colorado Springs, CO

4d•$117,000 - $218,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.