Director, DevSecOps Engineering

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L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Director, DevSecOps Engineering

Job Code: 44684

Job Location: Camden, NJ; Millersville, MD; Palm Bay, 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:

In a fast moving and increasingly complex world, L3Harris is anticipating and rapidly responding to challenges with agile technology – creating a safer and more secure future. Join our trailblazing Maritime team, where you'll dive into the thrilling world of high-assurance encryption products.

We are seeking a software engineering leader to drive adoption and disciplined execution of agile software engineering practices across the Maritime Sector. This role will help shape the software engineering approach within our Maritime businesses, advise engineering leadership on best practices, and partner with programs to improve efficiency, consistency, and execution of software development.

Essential Functions:

• Build an engineering pipeline to facilitate efficient, traceable, low defect, high-quality software development in our encryption business and beyond.
• Define, implement, and continuously improve software engineering processes, practices, standards, tools, and governance across multiple encryption programs and teams.
• Advise engineering and business leadership on software engineering strategy, process maturity, organizational capability, and execution improvement opportunities.
• Provide guidance and oversight to software teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Evaluate current software engineering performance across programs, identify systemic gaps and risks, and lead actions to improve effectiveness, quality, and predictability.
• Review and influence software development plans, technical approaches, cost and schedule estimates, proposals, and program startup activities to ensure alignment with software engineering best practices.
• Use data‑driven analysis to assess software engineering health, monitor organizational performance, and recommend and implement continuous improvement actions.
• Mentor technical leaders and engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the software engineering discipline.
• Travel up to 15%.
• Valid driver’s license if travel requires site access or local transportation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience, or a graduate degree and a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
• Broad and progressive software engineering experience, including significant leadership responsibility across multiple teams, programs, or organizational units.
• Ability to influence senior engineering, program, and business leaders and drive change across functional and program boundaries.
• Strong knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, including requirements capture, software architecture, design, coding, integration, test, release, and sustainment.
• Experience implementing AI and automation into software development and deployment pipelines in both classified and unclassified infrastructures.
• Experience with Agile, DevSecOps, digital engineering, model‑based development, automated test, and secure software development practices.
• Familiarity with software engineering governance, lifecycle compliance, peer review rigor, development metrics, and engineering performance measurement.
• Verbal, written, interpersonal, and presentation skills to communicate effectively with both technical and executive audiences.
• Experience operating in a regulated, mission‑critical, or highly disciplined engineering environment.
• Active and existing U.S. DoD Secret security clearance required to start.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, secure communications, encryption, embedded systems, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience leading software engineering process improvement initiatives across an organization, business area, or portfolio.
• Experience supporting proposal, capture, program startup, and execution planning activities with strong software engineering cost, schedule, and staffing inputs.
• Experience in one of the following technology areas:
• Software engineering pipelines
• RESTful API service design
• Real‑time embedded software development and embedded interfaces (I2C, RS232, CAN, Ethernet)
• VoIP systems, SIP‑based call control, or real‑time media applications
• Networking basics, such as HTTPS and websockets

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C. area, Denver, or NYC areas is $194,500 - $361,500. The salary range for this role in Colorado state, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New York state, Cleveland Ohio, Vermont and Virginia is $194,500 - $361,50. 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.

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Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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