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Job Title: Lead, Software Engineering (DevOps)Job Code: 47453Job Location: Colorado Springs, COJob Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked (Every Other Friday Off) Join L3Harris and the ATLAS team to build and operate mission-critical backend and deployment capabilities that directly support the U.S. Space Force. In this role, you'll combine modern backend development with hands-on DevOps responsibilities to ensure our services run reliably across multiple environments. You'll use Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and Kubernetes to design, develop, deploy, and sustain high-impact services for the Advanced Tracking & Launch Analysis System, enabling operators to make better decisions in a space mission environment. This position offers meaningful national security impact, strong technical collaboration, and the opportunity to see both your code and your operational tooling used in real-world missions.
Essential Functions- Design, develop, test, and sustain backend microservices and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and SQL to support operational and training capabilities.
- Develop services that support concurrent training scenarios, including execution coordination, scenario-data management, and lifecycle operations.
- Collaborate with application and systems architects to implement scenario-time control, state capture and restoration, and replay across distributed services.
- Design and implement Kubernetes deployment and orchestration solutions for concurrent training environments, including automated provisioning, workload isolation, and resource management.
- Evaluate and integrate virtual-cluster technologies with the Platform Services Administration team to meet isolation, scalability, security, and operational requirements.
- Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and integration teams to establish service interfaces, deployment automation, configuration practices, and integration testing.
- Develop automated tests and observability capabilities to validate application functionality, scenario-data integrity, and deployment reliability.
- Troubleshoot and optimize backend services, database interactions, and Kubernetes workloads across development, test, staging, and operational environments.
- Work with systems engineers, front-end developers, testers, and mission operators to deliver reliable, resilient capabilities.
Qualifications- Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Strong hands-on experience developing backend microservices and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and SQL.
- Experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting distributed applications, including concurrent processing, service coordination, and data consistency.
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes-based applications, including deployment automation, workload isolation, resource configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Experience developing data initialization, provisioning, or lifecycle-management capabilities for training, simulation, testing, or comparable multi-instance environments.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and application configuration management.
- Experience collaborating across application development, platform administration, DevOps, and integration teams.
- Experience working in Linux and Windows Server environments.
- Must hold or be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
Preferred Additional Skills- Experience with simulation-time control, state checkpointing and restoration, event replay, or reproducible scenario execution.
- Familiarity with concurrency control, event ordering, idempotency, and distributed state management.
- Experience with Kubernetes virtual clusters, such as vCluster, or comparable multi-tenant isolation technologies.
- Experience with Helm, Kubernetes operators, custom resource definitions, infrastructure as code, or GitOps.
- Experience implementing application and infrastructure observability, including logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Experience with GraphQL APIs or similar data-querying technologies.
- Background in space operations, Space Domain Awareness (SDA), or orbital modeling and simulation.
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 11/30/2026.
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