Research Computing Software Engineer; Platform Observability

Position: Research Computing Software Engineer (Platform Observability)
## Research Computing Software Engineer (Platform Observability)
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** POSITION SPECIFICS
** We are seeking a motivated, self-starting
** Computing Software Specialist (Platform Observability)
** to join our Cloud Technology Advancement Department in the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State. In this role you will perform Dev Sec Ops  functions with a strong focus on
** observability and platform reliability** — building and operating the monitoring, logging, and tracing backbone for our high-performance and cloud-native computing environments. This position would work out of our State College, PA, location.

ARL is an authorized DoD Skill Bridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.
** You will:
*** Design and implement secure, automated infrastructure solutions for high-performance computing environments through Agile software development
* Build and operate observability infrastructure across the
** three pillars — metrics, logging, and tracing** — including dashboards, actionable alerting, and health/performance monitoring
* Work to maintain and monitor our CI/CD pipelines to allow for frequent, trouble-free deployments of infrastructure code, and deploy/operate workloads in
** container orchestration
** environments across bare metal and cloud
* Assist in performing and reviewing pull requests, writing unit tests, and producing occasional documentation as needed
* Provide demonstrations of your work to the internal team and occasionally external customers
* Coordinate with the Agile team to identify risks, issues, requirements, and design solutions for project-level activity on a daily basis
** Required Skills/Experience areas include:
*** Dev Sec Ops  tools/practices and Linux-based infrastructure / system administration
* Infrastructure/automation via configuration management and scripting tools
* Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline development skills
* ** Container orchestration
** and interest in cloud-native technologies
* ** Observability concepts and tooling** — collecting and analyzing metrics, logs, and traces
** Preferred Skills/Experience areas include:
*** One or more
** observability stacks** — metrics/monitoring, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and dashboard/alerting platforms
* ** Service-level objectives (SLOs/SLIs)
** and supporting on-call/incident response practices
* ** Container orchestration
** at scale and familiarity with
** public, private, or hybrid cloud
** platforms* Configuration management via distributed version control, and experience with containerization

Your working location will be fully on-site located in State College, PA but options exist for hybrid of on-site/work from home based on project-dependent ability. Questions related to flexible work should be directed to the hiring manager during the…