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POSITION SPECIFICS

ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.

You will:

• Ensure the maximum availability stability and health of required program resources below to support operations experimentation development and testing
• JFN: MLS operational architecture including nodes hub network software baseline and CI/CD apparatus (e.g. IL-5 up to IL-7 Cloud
• Develop and maintain automated reporting mechanism using commercial or customer dashboards for reporting overall system health and status
• Provide software sustainment leveraging software configuration management controls and processes
• Establish and improve existing engineering processes and tools to provide system status by leveraging Platform/Applications/Data monitoring tools
• Contribute to the design and development of automating the daily verification and validation of key functional capabilities
• Support the automation of configuration management and the visibility into the status of CM across various environments
• Implement and promote systems engineering principles to ensure program success
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability of the system
• Prepare detailed reports and presentations on findings and share insights with stakeholders
• Stay updated with the latest trends technologies and advancements in automated testing distributed databases software defined networking container orchestration and DevSecOps
• Identify investigate and document system deficiencies to support Technical Operations

Required skills/experience areas include:

• Experience in Computer Science Networking and Information Technology including Software Engineering Systems Engineering DevSecOps and application lifecycle management
• Automation tools and techniques including configuration management and system validation
• System monitoring tools (Grafana Prometheus Splunk.)
• Virtualization: VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Linux KVM
• DevSecOps practices such as continuous integration and development tools (e.g. Jenkins GitLab Runners.)
• Kubernetes distros (RKE2 EKS K8s etc.)
• Cloud platforms and services (e.g. AWS Azure GCP)
• Configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible Puppet Terraform)
• Knowledge of application integration testing and automated testing frameworks
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with application providers
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities with experience in reporting project status to leadership
• Familiarity with modern IT frameworks and methodologies (e.g. Agile ITIL)
• U.S. Citizenship with an active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility within 3 months.
• IAT Level II certification.

Your working location will be fully on-site located in San Diego. Questions related to flexible work should be directed to the hiring manager during the interview process.

This position will require periodic travel to remote locations in support of testing as part of a small team of researchers engineers and technologists.

MINIMUM EDUCATION WORK EXPERIENCE & REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS

ARLs purpose is to research and develop innovative solutions to challenging scientific engineering and technology problems in support of the Navy the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intel Community (IC).

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Penn State provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees designed to support both personal and professional addition to comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage employees enjoy robust retirement plans and substantial paid time off which includes holidays vacation and sick time. One of the standout benefits is the generous 75% tuition discount available to employees as well as eligible spouses and children. For more detailed information please visit our Benefits Page.

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