Principal DevOps Engineer Job at Riverstone Enterprise Solutions (Annapolis Junction)

Principal DevOps Engineer

Riverstone Enterprise Solutions

Location:
United States , Annapolis Junction

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

200000.00 - 220000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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 DevOps Engineer Level 3 to join our team at Annapolis Junction, Maryland. This is an onsite position.

Job Responsibility:

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, staging, 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.)
Experience working cross functionally across multiple teams

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or higher is required in either Engineering (i.e. Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science with a minimum of ten (10) years of related experience. Five (5) years of additional DevOps experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree
Must be fluent with Git
Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 617/8, RHCSNRHCE CentOS)
Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency and performance
Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment preferred
Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, Active MQ, Redis, APC, etc.)
Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus)
Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance etc.
Experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment
Familiarity with software development life cycle models, agile, and DevOps programming methodologies
Current/Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Nice to have:

Fluent skills in object-oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, GO, Python, or Java
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.)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 05, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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