DevSecOps & CI/CD Research Engineer

at  Penn State University

JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Digital Engineering – West Department of the Communications, Information and Navigation Office (CINO) at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State is seeking energetic, experienced, highly motivated, and technically sound DevSecOps & CI/CD Research Engineers with the experience to drive highly technical and strategic discussions to support Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) platform research for DevSecOps with DoD security requirements in mind to join our teams located in San Diego, CA or Hawaii.
ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.

Responsibilities of this position include:

• Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments
• Manage continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency
• Improve systems through updates and optimizations using various technologies
• Present program overviews, proposals, and technical briefings at internal and external events
• Coordinate with sponsors and team members to identify risks, issues, requirements, and design solutions for project-level activity on a day to day basis

These jobs will be filled as a level 2, level 3, or level 4, depending upon the successful candidate’s competencies, education, and experience. Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree or higher in an Engineering or Science discipline or higher plus two years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience for a level 2. Additional experience and/or education and competencies are required for higher level jobs.

Additional responsibilities of a level 3 include:

• Manage DevSecOps project of a small to moderate size
• Mentor and train employees in the development of technical, project, and business development skills
• Author or co-author papers, proposals, presentations, and reports on DevSecOps

Additional responsibilities of a level 4 include:

• Manage DevSecOps project of a moderate to large size or across more than 3 classifications
• Mentor and train employees in the development of technical, project, and business development skills
• Author or co-author papers, large proposals, presentations, and reports on DevSecOps

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Broad knowledge of CI/CD, DevSecOps, Cloud and the ability to leverage that knowledge in technical implementation projects
• A strong understanding of security concepts, best practices and how to apply them, such as Secure Shell, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates, TLS, and data encryption to include Department of Defense and Intelligence Community security policies/processes
• Skilled in Platform management e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, and micro services architecture

LEADERSHIP SKILLS:

• Broad knowledge of CI/CD, DevSecOps, Cloud and the ability to leverage that knowledge in high or low-level strategy discussions
• Highly motivated and internally motivated
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• The ability to dynamically prioritize tasks
• Organized with attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to represent successful completion of work in Agile Management systems (e.g. Jira, Confluence, GitLab)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Enabling application operations via designing and implementing secure process automation
• Deploying DevSecOps in an Internet Disconnected environment or Dark Cloud
• Experience automating DevSecOps across multiple disconnected environments
• Managing source code, dependencies, and artifacts with GitLab Ultimate
• Executing DevSecOps CI/CD with GitLab Ultimate
• Establishing provisioning tools including Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or related frameworks
• Advanced understating of Rancher Federal & RKE2
• Direct experience deploying highly available/fault tolerant solutions
• Direct Software Development experience in Python, Java, C
• Cloud networking deployment (e.g. Software defined networking, Ingress, Egress)

LEADERSHIP SKILLS:

• Ability to take responsibility and accountability of program outcomes
• Systems architecture design, discovery, and validation
• For Higher Levels 3/4: Worked for or around General Officers, SES, or Presidential appointees

Personal Qualifications :

• US Military Veterans & US Military Reservists
• For higher levels 3/4: DoD 8570 IAT III or IASAE II Baseline (CISSP / CASP) and Computing Environment certification (Dell OS10, PAN-OS, Rancher, GitLab, Puppet etc.)

Responsibilities of this position include:

• Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments
• Manage continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency
• Improve systems through updates and optimizations using various technologies
• Present program overviews, proposals, and technical briefings at internal and external events
• Coordinate with sponsors and team members to identify risks, issues, requirements, and design solutions for project-level activity on a day to day basi

Additional responsibilities of a level 3 include:

• Manage DevSecOps project of a small to moderate size
• Mentor and train employees in the development of technical, project, and business development skills
• Author or co-author papers, proposals, presentations, and reports on DevSecOp

Additional responsibilities of a level 4 include:

• Manage DevSecOps project of a moderate to large size or across more than 3 classifications
• Mentor and train employees in the development of technical, project, and business development skills
• Author or co-author papers, large proposals, presentations, and reports on DevSecOp