DevOps Engineer

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.
 

Riverside Research is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a DevOps Engineer. The successful candidate will play a critical role in advancing our organization's mission to deliver rapid applications and prototypes and contribute to national and global security. This position requires a unique blend of technical expertise with building and deploying systems through automated processes. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines and experience creating scalable, available, performant, and secure AWS cloud infrastructure solutions.

• Use GitLab for pipeline automation with code scanning and security tools.
• Monitor and Optimize cloud resource performance and availability, monitor usage, and implement backup strategies for databases and other systems.
• Ensure system compliance with security standards (NIST 800-171, CMMC) and perform regular security assessments.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for cloud infrastructure and hosted software stacks.
• Create scalable, high performance data storage and retrieval systems using cloud technologies
• Containerization and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes)
• Infrastructure as code technologies (such as Puppet, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Cloud computing solutions with AWS, including cloud networking concepts
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve network problems
• Use of agile methodologies to plan and track work efforts
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to understand functional and technical specifications for new products
• Willingness to accommodate flexible tasking to include contributing to software development when needed

A minimum of 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor�s degree is required for this position and candidates must have DevOps experience working with automated deployment processes. 

$120,000 - $140,000 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.
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.