Research Computing Software Engineer (Platform Observability)

• 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

• DevSecOps 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

• 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 interview process.

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