Software Integration Engineer
The Pennsylvania State University4 months ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$106k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain the availability, stability, and health of program resources supporting operations, experimentation, development, and testing.
- Develop and maintain automated system-health and status reporting using commercial or customer dashboards.
- Provide software sustainment using software configuration-management controls and processes.
- Improve engineering processes, tools, monitoring, and platform/application/data visibility.
- Design and develop automation for daily verification and validation of key functional capabilities.
- Automate configuration management and improve visibility into configuration status across environments.
- Apply systems-engineering principles and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system reliability.
- Prepare reports and presentations on findings and communicate insights to stakeholders and leadership.
- Investigate and document system deficiencies supporting technical operations.
- Periodically travel to remote locations to support testing as part of a small engineering and research team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science.
- At least 2 years of relevant experience in computer science, networking, information technology, software engineering, systems engineering, DevSecOps, or application lifecycle management.
- Experience with automation, configuration management, system validation, monitoring tools, virtualization, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and automated or integration testing frameworks.
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, VMware, vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux KVM, Jenkins, GitLab Runners, AWS, Azure, GCP, Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with application providers.
- Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, communication, presentation, and leadership-reporting abilities.
- Familiarity with modern IT frameworks and methodologies such as Agile and ITIL.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain or maintain a government security clearance, including an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility within three months.
- IAT Level II certification.
- Must be able to participate in the ARL drug-testing program and comply with applicable electronic and physical monitoring requirements.
Benefits
- Fully on-site work in San Diego with periodic travel to remote testing locations; remote or hybrid work is not guaranteed.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Robust retirement plans.
- Substantial paid time off, including holidays, vacation, and sick time.
- 75% tuition discount for employees and eligible spouses and children.
- Full-time employment with eligibility for Penn State benefits.
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About The Pennsylvania State University
The Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State is a University Affiliated Research Center that delivers contract research, prototyping, and systems engineering for U.S. national security and related sponsors. Its work spans undersea systems, communications, navigation, acoustics, fluid dynamics, and advanced materials and manufacturing. Founded in 1945 and based in State College, Pennsylvania, ARL operates within The Pennsylvania State University and is funded largely through federal contracts and grants.