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Sr Specialist, Network Systems Engineer 1

Greenville, Texas

Job ID 16899
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Overview

On the L3Harris team, your job is to secure the world. We don’t work here just for the advanced technology and equipment: We work here because we know what – and who – we’re protecting. From families to the intelligence community, and from our climate to our men and women in uniform – we’re making the world a safer place. Working with the L3Harris's engineering team, you'll join our team of qualified, diverse individuals and work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, global scope, and a collaborative team setting.

  • Full Time
  • Level: Experienced
  • Location: On Site
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  • Collaborative
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  • Problem Solver
  • Strategic
  • Technical

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I am living my dream job now. I have a chance to take care of our people, shape the future of engineering and contribute to cutting-edge space missions that make a difference.

Specialist, Systems Engineering

L3Harris Work Perks

  • Health

    • Medical with a High Deductible and traditional PPO plan options, as well as, vision and a full array of supplemental health benefits
    • A doctors' service to help with referrals and second opinions for you, your family, and parents
  • Family

    • 4 weeks of paid parental leave for moms and dads
    • Fertility treatment
    • Subsidized backup childcare and eldercare
    • Adoption assistance - $5,000 per adoption/$15,000 per employee
    • Pet insurance
  • Well-Being

    • No cap to your PTO time (for exempt employees)
    • Dress for your day - wear what works for you at work
    • Legal plan for you, your family, and parents
    • Discount platform

Job Description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. 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: Sr. Specialist, Network Systems Engineering 

Job Code: 16899

Job Location: Greenville, Texas 

Schedule: 9/80 reg with every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Senior Specialist, Network Engineer (NE) performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and troubleshooting for total systems and or subsystems. The Sr. Specialist NE is part of a team that supports the requirements, design, development, test, and integration of complex, specialized hardware/software systems installed on ground and airborne communication platforms. 

Essential Functions:

  • Assist in the design and development of physical and logical network architectures incorporating voice, video, and data capability across multiple security domains
  • Maintains networks (both LAN & WAN) connecting airborne and ground systems via terrestrial and BLOS (Beyond Line of Sight) circuits
  • Translate the voice of the customer into system level requirements
  • Perform requirement traceability methods and purpose
  • Assist and or perform systems engineering trade studies
  • Assist in the evaluation of trade studies for accuracy and completeness
  • Write subsystem specifications based on system level requirements
  • Evaluate alternative solutions and establish preliminary system design
  • Review and evaluate diagrams to ensure design details trace to system requirements
  • Develop and execute network test procedures ensuring system performance and capabilities meet system requirements
  • Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical network information to non-technical professionals
  • Collaborate with multiple disciplines of engineering, to design a cohesive creditable multiple security domain network, and integrate the resulting design in a MILSTD based development environment

Qualifications:  

  • U.S. Citizenship
  • Active Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance 
  • Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 6 years of relevant experience or Master’s Degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
  • Intermediate knowledge and experience in network (LAN/WAN) design incorporating industry standard security best practices; NIST framework
  • Intermediate network engineering experience including IP addressing, switching and routing, VLANs, VPNs, video teleconferencing, VoIP telephony, and LANs/WANs
  • Intermediate experience in routing protocols including RIP, EGIRP, OSPF, and BGP
  • Certification and Accreditation process and implementation of systems that achieved an Authorization to Operate on government networks
  • DODAF knowledge
  • Configuration, integration, and troubleshooting of routers, switches, voice, and video teleconferencing equipment
  • Excellent written, oral, and presentation communication skills
  • Experience developing, authoring, and implementing software and system test plans in a team environment
  • Experience working successfully both independently and in a team environment with the ability to lead small test teams through an entire build cycle
  • Hands-on experience with testing, integrating, and verifying software and/or hardware

Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Current Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification
  • Experience with Kubernetes deployment/administration
  • Experience with SATCOM solutions/protocols
  • Experience with HAIPE devices is also a plus
  • RedHat Enterprise: Linux
  • Experience working with subcontractors and US Government customers
  • Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process and implementation of systems that achieved an Authorization to Operate (ATO) on government networks DODAF knowledge
  • Experience working government and/or military programs
  • Excellent written, oral communications skills
  • Willingness to travel

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.

By submitting your résumé for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your résumé, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

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