HPC DevSecOps Engineer for Research Computing & IaC

Applied Research Laboratory at the Penn State University; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State in Reston, VA seeks a Research Computing Software Engineer to build and optimize HPC environments and IaC to support DoW modeling and simulation.

You will collaborate with researchers and systems engineers, implement Ansible automation, optimize performance, and contribute to cloud integrations. On-site with hybrid options depending on project.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining software for research computing environments.
• Ability to deploy and automate software using IaC and CI/CD.
• Eligibility for access to classified information at Secret level or higher.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, enhance, and maintain software applications and tools.
• Write clean, well-documented code and automate using Ansible.
• Integrate software with HPC and cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with researchers and systems engineers.
• Analyze and optimize performance and address bottlenecks.
• Lead or participate in software development projects.
• May supervise staff, including hiring and performance management.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

HPC & cloud integration

Performance optimization

Clean code

Team supervision

Education

Associate Degree

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Ansible

Job description

Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State in Reston, VA seeks a Research Computing Software Engineer to build and optimize HPC environments and IaC to support DoW modeling and simulation.

You will collaborate with researchers and systems engineers, implement Ansible automation, optimize performance, and contribute to cloud integrations. On-site with hybrid options depending on project.