Director, Secure Area IT

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Job Title: Director, Secure Area IT

Job Code: 34176

Job Location: Melbourne, 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:

The Director of Secure Area IT will be responsible for overseeing the IT operations within all classified environments. This includes managing the IT infrastructure, ensuring compliance with security requirements, and providing strategic leadership to the IT team. The role is critical for maintaining the integrity and security of sensitive systems and data, requiring an individual with experience in both IT leadership and security.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and execute strategic initiatives to increase efficiency, and improve technology maturity
• Lead modernization initiatives including NAC, Zero Trust-aligned network segmentation, optimization of network edge environments, and high-performance computing, including secure cloud and AI.
• Establish a roadmap for reliability, capacity, lifecycle modernization, and secure workload placement across data centers, cloud, and edge sites.
• Drive proactive monitoring, observability, automation, and engineering standards to reduce MTTR, eliminate technical debt, and improve service stability.
• Lead a global team of network engineers, system administrators, customer service, and IT architects; foster a culture of ownership, engineering rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Drive workforce planning, talent development, and capability building to support a modern, software-defined, automated network environment.
• Ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles, STIGs, government/regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Drive network segmentation, identity-based access, and integrated threat detection in collaboration with security engineering.
• Ensure proper documentation, configuration management, architectural governance, and audit readiness.
• 15% Travel required

Qualifications:

• 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 Additional Skills:

• 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.

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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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