DevSecOps R&D Engineer: Cloud Automation & CI/CD

Applied Research Laboratory at the Penn State University; State College (Centre County); On-site; USD 92,000 - 174,708; Full time

Job summary

The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University, based in State College, PA, is seeking a motivated DevSecOps Research and Development Engineer to advance our Cloud Technology Advancement Department. You will design and implement secure, automated infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for high‑performance computing environments, collaborating within an Agile team.

You will configure compute resources, perform code reviews, and demonstrate your work to internal teams and external

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science is required with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with DevSecOps tools and practices is expected.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Linux administration, and scripting is required.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, automated infrastructure for HPC environments using Agile methods.
• Review pull requests, unit tests, and documentation as part of a team.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent, reliable deployments of infrastructure code.

Skills

DevSecOps practices

Linux system administration

Scripting (Ansible/Puppet)

Kubernetes/Cloud-native

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Engineering or Science

Tools

Git/Bitbucket/GitLab

Docker

RHEL

VM/container orchestration

Job description

The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University, based in State College, PA, is seeking a motivated DevSecOps Research and Development Engineer to advance our Cloud Technology Advancement Department. You will design and implement secure, automated infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for high‑performance computing environments, collaborating within an Agile team.

You will configure compute resources, perform code reviews, and demonstrate your work to internal teams and external