Job Description

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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Cyber, Modeling and Simulation Division (CMS) of the Communications, Information and Navigation Office (CINO) at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University is seeking a highly motivated, self-starting Department Head to lead a team of engineers in a rapidly growing area encompassing varied research and technology disciplines related cyber domains. The CMS Division supports numerous research areas and programs in cybersecurity that provide a unique opportunity to direct and collaborate on research projects, supervise engineers and team leaders, lead strategic initiatives, and maintain relationships with external collaborators. This position can be filled as an Engineering Program Manager, Research and Development Engineer, or a non-tenure Research Faculty and will be located in San Diego, CA or Hawaii.

The ideal candidate will possess broad technical knowledge of all aspects of department tasking as well as operational/technical skills in one or more specific components including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Security, and Data Engineering.

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\xe2\x80\x99s Digital Engineering resources.
• Develop and manage partnerships and relationships with sponsors and collaborators in government, academia, and industry.
• Building a partnership with ARL\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

This job will be filled as a level 3, level 4 or level 5 depending upon the successful candidate\'s competencies, education, and experience. Typically requires a Bachelor\'s degree or higher in an Engineering or Science discipline plus four years\xe2\x80\x99 related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience for a level 3. Additional experience and/or education and competencies are required for higher level jobs. A Master\'s or Doctorate degree is preferred.

Required skills/knowledge include:

• Experienced leadership in personnel and financial management.
• Experience securing infrastructure and applications in the DoD/IC Community
• Experience with containerized environments.
• Experience implementing security monitoring, logging, and alerting throughout a system.
• Experience administering Linux-based systems.
• Adept understanding of cloud-computing; virtualization technologies, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS delivery models.

Preferred skills/experience includ:

• 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.
• Experience participating in security-related roles within the software development lifecycle.
• Experience working 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.
• Experience with data technologies and data engineering \xe2\x80\x93 distributed systems, MQTT, ETL with databases with large-scale, complex datasets; data structures and organization for fast, high throughput processing.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and will be required to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance. Applicants with an active TS/SCI will be given preference.

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply. Employment with the ARL will require successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen.

ARL is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion; we believe this is central to our success as a Department of Defense designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). We are at our best when we draw on the talents of all parts of society, and our greatest accomplishments are achieved when diverse perspectives are part of our workforce.

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 .

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

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