DevOps Engineer (TS/SCI)

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.

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Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of DevOps principles, container orchestration, and cloud-native application development. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth deployment and scalability of applications within OpenShift environments.

Responsibilities

1. OpenShift Management: Design, deploy, and manage OpenShift clusters to support containerized applications.
2. CI/CD Pipeline Development: Build and maintain continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes.
3. Automation: Develop and implement automation scripts to optimize infrastructure deployment, scaling, and maintenance using tools like Ansible, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
4. Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting tools to ensure high availability and performance of OpenShift environments. Troubleshoot production issues and resolve them efficiently.
5. Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA, and operations teams to integrate DevOps solutions into the development lifecycle.
6. Cloud Integration: Manage hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, ensuring seamless integration between OpenShift and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
7. Security & Compliance: Implement security best practices for containers and Kubernetes, ensure compliance with industry standards, and conduct regular security audits.
8. Performance Optimization: Tune application performance, load balancing, and scaling strategies within OpenShift clusters.
9. Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of infrastructure, systems, and processes.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field.
2. Experience with OpenShift: 3+ years of hands-on experience managing and administering OpenShift clusters.
3. Kubernetes Expertise: Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, deployments, and associated tools.
4. Containerization: Proficiency in Docker, container orchestration, and microservices architecture.
5. Automation Tools: Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or similar IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools.
6. CI/CD Pipelines: Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Minikube, or similar tools.
7. Scripting and Programming: Proficient in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Java, Terraform or Groovy.
8. Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and their integration with OpenShift.
9. Monitoring & Logging: Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and logging tools like ELK stack or Splunk.
10. Version Control: Proficiency in Git and experience with version control practices in a team environment.
11. Security: Knowledge of container security best practices, including vulnerability scanning and network policies.

Preferred Qualifications

1. OpenShift Certified Administrator (OCA) or Kubernetes certification.
2. Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud architectures.
3. Understanding of networking in Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
4. Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS.
5. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to incident resolution.
6. Experience in implementing DoD STIG’s and RMF Assessment Knowledge.

Global Compensation

$80,000 - $130,000. 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.