L3Harris Technologies

Director, Secure Area IT

L3Harris Technologies

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Melbourne • Florida • United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Overseeing IT operations within all classified environments.
  • Managing IT infrastructure, ensuring compliance with security requirements.
  • Providing strategic leadership to the IT team.
  • Developing and executing strategic initiatives to increase efficiency and improve technology maturity.
  • Leading modernization initiatives including NAC, Zero Trust-aligned network segmentation, and high-performance computing including secure cloud and AI.
  • Establishing a roadmap for reliability, capacity, lifecycle modernization and secure workload placement across data centers, cloud, and edge sites.
  • Driving proactive monitoring, observability, automation, and engineering standards to reduce MTTR, eliminate technical debt, and improve service stability.
  • Leading a global team of network engineers, system administrators, customer service, and IT architects; fostering a culture of ownership, engineering rigor, and continuous improvement.
  • Driving workforce planning, talent development, and capability building to support a modern, software-defined, automated network environment.
  • Ensuring compliance with Zero Trust principles, STIGs, government/regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
  • Driving network segmentation, identity-based access, and integrated threat detection in collaboration with security engineering.
  • Ensuring proper documentation, configuration management, architectural governance, and audit readiness.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience.
  • Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
  • In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
  • Active Top Secret Security Clearance Preferred
  • Expertise leading a multi-discipline IT team in enterprise networking
  • Proven track record driving IT modernization, cloud connectivity, and secure architecture transformations.
  • Experience operating within highly regulated environments (DoD, aerospace/defense, government contractors, or similar).
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, manage MSPs, build high-performance teams, and deliver measurable operational outcomes.
  • Experience delivering working in classified areas
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate technical requirements into operational and financial outcomes.
  • Committed to simplification, standardization, modernization, and engineering excellence.
  • Able to influence across diverse business units, functions, and technology domains.
  • Ability to empowers teams, build trust, promote accountability, and models L3Harris values.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
Benefits
  • 15% Travel required
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
IT operations managementIT infrastructure managementnetwork segmentationZero Trust architecturehigh-performance computingcloud computingautomationproactive monitoringconfiguration managementaudit readiness
Soft Skills
strategic leadershipteam buildinginfluenceownershipengineering rigorcontinuous improvementbusiness acumentrust buildingaccountabilityadaptability
Certifications
Top Secret Security Clearance