Job Description
DevOps Engineer
Location
US-OH-Fairborn
ID
2024-3314
Category
Software Development
Position Type
Full Time Salary
Riverside Overview
Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country's most challenging technical problems.
All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship.
Position Overview
The Riverside Research Software Applications Team (SWAT) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to support the deployment of our software products to Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) networks. The successful candidate will play a key role in conducting and monitoring our product deployments, automating and optimizing our operations and processes, and improving deployment strategies. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about delivering valuable solutions to users and has a keen sense of efficiency, reliability, and security.
The SWAT is an innovative team of experienced software professionals who develop and deploy valuable (i.e., useful, usable, used) and desirable software solutions at the speed of relevancy. Our mission is to collaborate with customers to identify and overcome their challenges through transparent communication, creative ideation, and experienced prototyping and deployment. We believe in a culture built on smart work, trust, autonomy, and a healthy work-life balance. Our core values are commitment, growth, and resourcefulness. We use the proven practices of design thinking, rapid prototyping, and agile practices to address market demand and maximize user adoption. Successful members typically have personality traits including proaction, patience, perseverance, and professionalism. If you are familiar with Working Genius, we are looking for individuals who get energy from Tenacity and Enablement (i.e., Working Genius is T&E). If our mission and work culture resonate with you, we invite you to apply.
Responsibilities
Facilitating and executing software product deployments by collaborating with developers in writing Helm charts, or docker-compose.yaml files to deploy applications on-prem and/or cloud-based environments
Assisting in automating and optimizing delivery and deployment of software products via Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
Monitoring operations and applications
Working/coordinating with multiple platform teams (i.e., customer, commercial, and company internal)
Helping product road map planning by communicating delivery and deployment dependencies and timelines
Helping orchestrate product integration with an emphasis on providing proactive identification and resolution of product dependencies and conflicts
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Top Secret clearance with SCI adjudication
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related field of study
5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer including planning, advising on, and executing DevOps responsibilities and CI/CD solutions
10 years of experience in command line environment (Bash)
10 years of experience with or on Linux or Unix based OS systems using common UNIX/Linux tools (ssh, tar, sed, grep, awk, vi, emacs, cron, etc...)
5 years of experience with build systems and maintaining tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, etc.
5 years of experience with source control management systems
Security+ training/certification CompTIA
Experience with Docker and Podman
Experience working on deployment environments including virtual machines
Experience with Python or similar languages
Self-motivated, detail oriented, responsible team player able to work independently with minimal daily direction; effective/efficient written/verbal communication skills
Ability to work and interact with technically and organizationally diverse personnel
Desired Qualifications:
Master's Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or other related field of study
Experience writing Helm Charts and using container orchestration applications including Kubernetes
Experience with Docker Compose
Experience with Argo Project or Argo CD
Experience managing and maintaining Linux servers
Experience working/developing in multi-domain, multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud environments
Experience deploying applications on SIPRNet and JWICS
Experience working with cloud environments like AWS and/or Azure
Familiarity with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center's Mission Readiness Environment (MRE)
Familiarity with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Research Laboratory Environment (RLE)
Familiarity with Army Cloud
Scrum training/certification from Scrum Alliance
Global Comp
$130,000 - $150,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.
Closing Statement
Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees.
Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran's status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.
Riverside Research is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local law.
