DevOps Engineer/Linux Administrator

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 Information Technology (IT) team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to support teams within the company that deploy software products to Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) networks. The successful candidate will play a key role in assisting internal teams in automating and optimizing their operations, processes, and improving deployment strategies. This includes leveraging strong Linux administration skills to manage, maintain, and secure the underlying infrastructure supporting our CI/CD pipelines and production environments. 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. This position is located at our Fairborn, OH office.

Responsibilities

• Implementing, maintaining, and hardening Linux servers and virtual machines that host CI/CD tools and production environments, ensuring high availability and security compliance.
• Facilitating and executing software product deployments by collaborating with developers
• Monitoring operations and applications, including using Linux-based logging and monitoring tools to diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Assisting in automating and optimizing delivery and deployment of software products via Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• 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
• Providing Tier 2 support of a VMware based environment that includes both Linux and Windows machines in distributed classified computer environments
• Act as liaison and advocate between customer, IT management, Engineering, and Information Security staff
• Develop new and maintain existing installation and configuration procedures
• Working knowledge installing, upgrading, and configuring hardware and software
• Apply security updates/patches to Linux and Windows operation systems
• Remediate monthly compliance scans
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures
• Assist with management of communication security accounts and related devices
• Coordinate with tier 3 functional roles within the information technology team as needed
• Coordinate and communicate all significant information technology changes/outages with the appropriate parties such as the customer, management, and information security
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related field of study
• Top Secret clearance with SCI adjudication
• DoD 8140 - Intermediate Certification (CompTIA Security+ or equivalent).
• Strong, verifiable experience in Linux system administration, including configuration, patching, user management, and security hardening (e.g., DISA STIGs).
• Experience with or on Linux or Unix based OS systems using common UNIX/Linux tools (ssh, tar, sed, grep, awk, vi, emacs, cron, etc...)
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer including planning, advising on, and executing DevOps responsibilities and CI/CD solutions
• Experience in command line environment (Bash)
• Experience with build systems and maintaining tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, etc.
• Experience with source control management systems
• Experience with Docker or 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:

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer including planning, advising on, and executing DevOps responsibilities and CI/CD solutions
• Seeking a candidate that has at least 1 years’ experience performing systems administration
• Has applied STIGS to Linux operating systems, Windows operating systems, network devices, ESXi hosts, and required applications.
• Experience with build systems and maintaining tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, etc.
• Utilized an automation tool(s) to manage Linux environments as ansible
• Experience working/developing in multi-domain, multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud environments

Global Comp

$72,800 - $135,200 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.