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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.

• 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

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

$130,000 - $150,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.

 
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.
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