Software Integration Engineer
The Pennsylvania State University2 hours 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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