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Riverstone Enterprise Solutions, an Envision Innovative Solutions Company, delivers mission-focused technology solutions to the Intelligence Community. Since 2008, we have supported critical national security programs by building high-performing engineering teams and developing innovative enterprise solutions. Our engineers work in a collaborative, zero-bureaucracy environment where expertise is valued, ideas are heard, and contributions directly drive mission success. Your adventure begins now-unleash your potential at Riverstone, we combine the agility of a small company with the impact of a big mission.

Riverstone is seeking a motivated, career, and customer-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Annapolis Junction, Maryland. This is an onsite position.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging
• Develop & maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (GIT), including branching and merging strategies
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies. Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, stag in g, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits
• Set-up up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible
• Maintain / upgrade/ patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence / Jira)
• Create, Assist, and Implement design and maintenance web service infrastructure and deployment
• Leverage programming Languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java
• Proficient with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies.
• Proficient automating network infrastructure configuration using Software Defined Networking
• Ability to have a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture
• Understanding of SLA requirements and role of high availability architectures, performance optimization, and monitoring techniques
• Act in the capacity to support deployment and operations when necessary
• Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
• Architect and develop best; practices for software build tools (Gradle, Maven, ANT, Shell) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (Amazon Web Services, VMWare, Puppet, Chef, ansible, etc.)

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in either Engineering (i. e. Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science with a minimum of five (5) years of related experience. Five (5) years of additional DevOps experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
  Expertise in designing, automating, and optimizing enterprise-scale DevOps environments using CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, and cloud technologies.
  Experience with Git, Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins/Bamboo, and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
  Strong knowledge of system administration, monitoring, performance tuning, high-availability architectures, security best practices, and network automation.
  Proficiency in scripting and programming languages including 2 or more of the followings: Python, Java, Ruby, Perl, Go, and Shell scripting to support automation and operational efficiency.
  Experience managing cloud and virtualized environments, databases (MySQL), caching technologies (Redis, Memcache, ActiveMQ), and Elasticsearch ecosystem

Desired Skills:

• Experience architecting and implementing cloud-native and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) solutions in complex enterprise environments
• Strong background developing best practices for software build automation, continuous integration, and infrastructure orchestration. Expertise with Software Defined Networking (SDN), serverless technologies, and modern deployment architectures.
• Advanced troubleshooting, performance optimization, and operational support experience across development, testing, staging, and production environments..

Security Clearance Requirement: Current/Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
The projected compensation range for this position is $170,000.00-$190,000.00.There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories

Riverstone Enterprise Solutions is an equal-opportunity employer. All Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age, disability or any other basis prohibited by law.

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