Agile Methods Manager & Researcher

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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Cloud Technology Advancement Department of the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State is seeking energetic, highly motivated, and technically sound Agile Methods Managers & Researchers with excellent interpersonal skills to assist in building strong client relationships.

We are seeking broad thinkers with the experience to drive highly technical and strategic discussions that support Cloud Technology Advancement and Technology Adoption research for the DoD, 4th estate, and IC communities.

Located onsite in State College PA

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

You will:

• Leverage agile best practices to ensure that all projects can follow the agile methodology to achieve greater results
• Support Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment as a way to help build quality, security, and regulatory compliance
• Support the delivery and updates of software quickly to meet changing requirements without compromising on quality or stability
• Integrate security into the full DevOps pipeline, so that security requirements are baked into systems
• Improve software delivery and quality, a culture of innovation, service-level goals and indicators (SLOs and SLIs), collaboration across teams, and automation across all DevSecOps concepts shared with agile principles
• Facilitate communication between development, operations, and security teams

This can be filled at multiple levels depending upon the successful candidate's competencies, education, and experience. Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a Engineering or Science discipline plus two years of related experience at the Intermediate Level. Additional experience and/or education and competencies are required for higher level jobs.

Required skills/experience areas include:

• Broad knowledge of management technologies and solutions, Cloud, DevSecOps, and the ability to leverage that knowledge in solution implementation projects
• Highly Skilled in business visualization tools e.g. Microsoft office suite of software including PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI and others.
• Direct technical experience and or certifications with Agile Management systems (e.g. Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Azure, AWS)
• Ability to research and document the outcomes of OEM and Vendor interactions with the solutions architecture team
• Ability to edit and create supporting documentation related to Agile solution development activities
• Ability to research and visually map processes and procedures used in the Agile Value stream of a solutions development team
• Ability to represent successful completion of work in Agile Management systems (e.g. Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Azure, AWS)
• The ability to dynamically prioritize tasks using an agile system (e.g. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban)
• Organized with attention to detail and accuracy
• Active DoD Secret clearance, Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance
• Active Agile management certification / training, (e.g. SAFe, PMI-ACP, PMP)
• Minimum DoD 8570 IAT II Baseline Certification (e.g. Security+ce, GSEC, SSCP) within 6 months of hire
• DoD 8570 IAT II ‘Computing Environment’ training or certification (CNCF, AWS, o365, Azure, Rancher, GitLab, Puppet, Atlassian etc.) within 6 months of hire

Preferred skills/experience areas include:

• ​Knowledge of Cloud networking deployment (e.g. Software defined networking, Ingress, Egress, Service Meshes)
• Knowledge of Software Development experience in Python, Java, C
• Knowledge of Legacy Platform management methods and processes e.g. WSUS, YUM, SCCM
• Understanding of security concepts, best practices and how to apply them, such as Secure Shell, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates, TLS, and data encryption to include Department of Defense and Intelligence Community security policies/processes
• Managing solution success, source code, dependencies, and artifacts with and agile lifecycle management tool (e.g. Atlassian, Gitlab)
• Knowledge of Cloud Native Platform management e.g. CNCF, Docker, Kubernetes, and micro services architecture
• Proficiency with financial management systems e.g. Propricer, SIMBA, and Concur
• Experience with researching and documenting methods and processes for business, systems, or software efforts in a DoD, 4th estate, or IC context
• Ability to identify and research disparate teams of OEMs, Value Added Resellers, Vendors, and sponsor directed contractors in an agile manner​
• Ability to bridge OEM, Internal, and Sponsor process impediments under pressure
• Ability to take responsibility and accountability of team outcomes
• Solution & Systems architecture design, discovery, and validation
• Scaled Agile Team leadership of geographical dispersed teams and value streams
• US Military Veterans & US Military Reservists
• Willingness to obtain an active DoD TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• For higher levels: Willingness to obtain DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT III or IASAE II Baseline (CISSP / CASP) and Computing Cloud Related Environment certification (Azure, AWS, CNCF, Rancher, VMware)

Employee may be required to travel in support of distant end solutions installations or break fix actions if they cannot be accomplished remotely. Such travel may be with limited (less than 3 days) notice.

Travel Includes but is not limited to: Europe, Asia, and other OCONUS / CONUS locations as required

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

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

**The proposed salary range may be impacted by geographic differential.**

The salary range for this position, including all possible grades is:

$86,300.00 - $164,000.00

Salary Structure - additional information on Penn State's job and salary structure.

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University Park, PA