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The Pennsylvania State University is hiring a DevSecOps Department Head (Faculty) to lead the DevSecOps Department within the Joint Mission Integration and Experimentation Division of the Applied Research Laboratory. The role involves developing strategic plans, managing research personnel, fostering partnerships with government, academia, and industry, coordinating interdisciplinary activities, and overseeing the department's technical operations related to continuous integration, delivery, deployment, security, and data engineering.

Highlights

Lead the DevSecOps Department and manage research engineers and technicians.
Develop and implement strategic plans leveraging digital engineering resources.
Build and maintain partnerships with sponsors and collaborators across government, academia, and industry.
Coordinate lab-wide activities to meet unique mission and sponsor requirements.
Present department overviews, proposals, and technical briefings at various events.
Prepare and review proposals, technical and status reports, and administrative documents.
Required skills include leadership in personnel and financial management, securing DoD/IC infrastructure, containerized environments, Linux administration, cloud computing knowledge, and holding a TS/SCI clearance.
Preferred qualifications include security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP), CI/CD pipeline experience, Atlassian tools proficiency, data engineering expertise, and active TS/SCI clearance.
Minimum education requirement is a Master's degree in engineering or science with at least one year of related experience.
Employment requires U.S. citizenship, successful background checks, and onsite work in San Diego, CA.

DevSecOps Department Head (Faculty) Full Description

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday.
CURRENT PENN STATE STUDENT (not employed previously at the university) and seeking employment with Penn State, please login to Workday to complete the student application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday.
If you are NOT a current employee or student, please click "Apply" and complete the application process for external applicants.

Approval of remote and hybrid work is not guaranteed regardless of work location. For additional information on remote work at Penn State, see Notice to Out of State Applicants.

POSITION SPECIFICS

We are seeking a highly motivated Department Head to lead the DevSecOps Department within the Joint Mission Integration and Experimentation Division (JMIE) of the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State. JMIE specializes in rapid development of warfighter capabilities in an aggregated and integrated multidomain environment. The Department Head will report directly to the JMIE Division Head and will be responsible for managing the departments research engineers and technicians. This position will be filled as a Research and Development Engineer or a non-tenure Research Faculty and will be located in San Diego, CA.

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

You will:

Develop and execute a Department strategic plan harnessing and enabling ARL's Digital Engineering resources
Develop and manage partnerships and relationships with sponsors and collaborators in government, academia, and industry
Building a partnership with ARL's Enterprise Cyber organization
Coordinate across Offices for lab wide fulfillment of unique mission sets and agile sponsor requirements
Present Department and program overviews, proposals, and technical briefings at internal and external events
Prepare and review proposals, technical reports, status reports, and other programmatic and administrative documents
Coordinate with sponsors and supervised organizational logistics and team management to identify risks, issues, requirements, and design solutions for project-level activity on a day to day basis
Lead a technically strong, dynamic, and entrepreneurial group of personnel
Create and manage a world-class and diverse engineering workforce
Department tasking and operational/technical skills in one or more specific components including: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Security, and Data Engineering

Faculty rank will be commensurate with education and experience. Minimally requires a Master's degree in an engineering or science discipline and 1 year related experience.

Required skills/experience areas include:

Leadership in personnel and financial management
Securing infrastructure and applications in the DoD/IC Community
Containerized environments
Implementation of security monitoring, logging, and alerting throughout a system
Administration of Linux-based systems
Adept understanding of cloud-computing; virtualization technologies, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS delivery models
Obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred skills/experience areas include:

Security-related certifications (CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP, Security+, etc.)
Direct experience with upgrades, migrations, and integration of developmental and tactical platform environments and CI/CD pipelines
Participation in security-related roles within the software development lifecycle
Work with Atlassian products (JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence)
Experience ensuring reliable data collection; monitoring and auditing integrity of data throughout its lifecycle
Experience employing algorithms to model and estimate data to handle missing/corrupt values; time series modeling and prediction
Data technologies and data engineering - distributed systems, MQTT, ETL with databases with large-scale, complex datasets; data structures and organization for fast, high throughput processing
Active TS/SCI Clearance

This position will be located fully on site and located in San Diego, CA.

ARL's 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).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on ARL, visit our web site at www.arl.psu.edu.

BACKGROUND CHECKS/CLEARANCES Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies.

All positions at ARL require candidates to possess the ability to obtain a government security clearance; you will be notified during the interview process if this position is subject to a government background investigation. You must be a U.S. citizen to apply. Employment with the ARL will require successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen.

BENEFITS
Penn State provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees designed to support both personal and professional wellbeing. In addition to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, employees enjoy robust retirement plans. 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.

CAMPUS SECURITY CRIME STATISTICS

Pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and the Pennsylvania Act of 1988, Penn State publishes a combined Annual Security and Annual Fire Safety Report (ASR). The ASR includes crime statistics and institutional policies concerning campus security, such as those concerning alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, the reporting of crimes, sexual assault, and other matters. The ASR is available for review here.

EEO IS THE LAW

Penn State is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you are unable to use our online application process due to an impairment or disability, please contact 814-865-1473.

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APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday.
CURRENT PENN STATE STUDENT (not employed previously at the university) and seeking employment with Penn State, please login to Workday to complete the student application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday.
If you are NOT a current employee or student, please click "Apply" and complete the application process for external applicants.

Approval of remote and hybrid work is not guaranteed regardless of work location. For additional information on remote work at Penn State, see Notice to Out of State Applicants.

POSITION SPECIFICS

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

You will:

Develop and execute a Department strategic plan harnessing and enabling ARL's Digital Engineering resources
Develop and manage partnerships and relationships with sponsors and collaborators in government, academia, and industry
Building a partnership with ARL's Enterprise Cyber organization
Coordinate across Offices for lab wide fulfillment of unique mission sets and agile sponsor requirements
Present Department and program overviews, proposals, and technical briefings at internal and external events
Prepare and review proposals, technical reports, status reports, and other programmatic and administrative documents
Coordinate with sponsors and supervised organizational logistics and team management to identify risks, issues, requirements, and design solutions for project-level activity on a day to day basis
Lead a technically strong, dynamic, and entrepreneurial group of personnel
Create and manage a world-class and diverse engineering workforce
Department tasking and operational/technical skills in one or more specific components including: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Security, and Data Engineering

Faculty rank will be commensurate with education and experience. Minimally requires a Master's degree in an engineering or science discipline and 1 year related experience.

Required skills/experience areas include:

Leadership in personnel and financial management
Securing infrastructure and applications in the DoD/IC Community
Containerized environments
Implementation of security monitoring, logging, and alerting throughout a system
Administration of Linux-based systems
Adept understanding of cloud-computing; virtualization technologies, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS delivery models
Obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred skills/experience areas include:

Security-related certifications (CISSP, CSSLP, CCSP, Security+, etc.)
Direct experience with upgrades, migrations, and integration of developmental and tactical platform environments and CI/CD pipelines
Participation in security-related roles within the software development lifecycle
Work with Atlassian products (JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence)
Experience ensuring reliable data collection; monitoring and auditing integrity of data throughout its lifecycle
Experience employing algorithms to model and estimate data to handle missing/corrupt values; time series modeling and prediction
Data technologies and data engineering - distributed systems, MQTT, ETL with databases with large-scale, complex datasets; data structures and organization for fast, high throughput processing
Active TS/SCI Clearance

This position will be located fully on site and located in San Diego, CA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on ARL, visit our web site at www.arl.psu.edu.

BACKGROUND CHECKS/CLEARANCES Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies.

For more detailed information, please visit our Benefits Page.

CAMPUS SECURITY CRIME STATISTICS

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