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DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure SME

United States

RESULTS. INNOVATION. VALUES. ACCOUNTABILITY. 

That’s RIVA. 

We’re a mission-driven IT services company and systems integrator supporting digital transformation and modernization for federal government agencies. Since 2009, we’ve partnered with our customers to solve complex challenges through smart, practical innovation to deliver real outcomes where they matter most. Our teams are made up of industry-leading experts who are passionate about doing great work and making a difference. We don’t just develop solutions, we support efforts that strengthen communities and serve the public good. 
 
RIVA’s culture is built on four core values: Results, Innovation, Values, and Accountability. They guide how we work, how we collaborate, and how we measure success. Our employee-first approach is rooted in trust, ownership, and meaningful work. By investing in our people and fostering a flexible, supportive environment, employees have the opportunity to grow their skills, contribute ideas, and make an impact from day one. all while supporting missions that matter. 

POSITION OVERVIEW

RIVA Solutions is hiring a DevOps Engineer to run the platform behind the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Enterprise Information System (MEIS) for NIST MEP at the U.S. Department of Commerce. MEIS runs as containerized .NET workloads on AWS EKS, with SQL Server on EC2, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure defined in CloudFormation.

This is a hands-on role with an unusual constraint. A separate government team owns the Kubernetes control plane and executes every database change, so you deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot inside an environment you do not administer. You will also write .NET code alongside the development team.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Own and improve the GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Continuous integration is pull request driven, with roughly one planned release per month plus frequent out-of-band deployments.
  • Manage AWS infrastructure through CloudFormation templates.
  • Operate containerized workloads on AWS EKS without cluster control plane access. You can restart pods and manage your workloads; the government infrastructure team owns the cluster itself.
  • Manage application environments and configuration across Production, Test, Development, and UAT.
  • Administer the Windows Server and IIS web tier.
  • Coordinate database and reporting deployments with the government database team, which executes all schema and report changes.
  • Restore from backup into lower environments and run validation tests. Backups are incremental with a weekly full, delivered to an SFTP site.
  • Monitor through CloudWatch and maintain availability health-check endpoints.
  • Remediate vulnerability scan and penetration test findings from the government security team, a third-party scanner, and Synack. Track and close POA&M items, and support the annual stand-up of a staging environment for deeper scanning.
  • Support incident response and environment troubleshooting, including on-call coverage outside the 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. support window.
  • Write and maintain C# and .NET code alongside the development team. This is not a pure platform role.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field from an accredited US University, or equivalent experience.
  • 8 or more years in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
  • Hands-on AWS: EKS, EC2, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and IAM.
  • Kubernetes workload operations, including deployments, pods, config, and troubleshooting, in a cluster you did not administer.
  • Authoring and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
  • Windows Server and IIS administration.
  • SQL Server administration fundamentals and schema deployment packaging.
  • Working C# and .NET development ability. You will be asked to write application code.
  • Docker image build and container troubleshooting.
  • U.S. citizenship. Must be able to pass a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) background investigation and obtain an HSPD-12 badge, which typically takes 14 to 21 days.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Deploying .NET Framework and .NET Core applications to containerized environments.
  • DACPAC packaging for SQL Server schema changes.
  • Vulnerability management and POA&M (plan of action and milestones) tracking in a FISMA or NIST SP 800-53 environment.
  • Penetration test and scanning workflows using Synack, Tenable, or similar tooling.
  • Azure AD or Entra ID, including external guest user identity.
  • ServiceNow, particularly its API.
  • Infrastructure as code beyond CloudFormation, such as Terraform.
  • Prior federal experience on a program where a separate government team owns the cloud platform and the database.

 

 

The salary or salary range for this role reflects an estimated range informed by multiple compensation factors. Final offers may vary based on considerations such as relevant experience, education and training, critical skillsets, and overall business needs.


Pay range

$130,000 - $145,000 USD

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY & ACCOMMODATION

We believe great teams are built from different backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences, and we mean that beyond the buzzwords. 

RIVA is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of every race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law.

If you need an accommodation at any point in our process, send an email to talent@rivasolutionsinc.com, we'll be happy to help.

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As a federal contractor, RIVA follows the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, supporting the employment and advancement of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you're a veteran, we encourage you to self-identify during the application process, it helps us track our hiring commitments and, in some cases, may support priority referral for open roles.

RIVA also invites applicants to voluntarily self-identify as having a disability during the application process, not because it affects your chances of being hired, but because it helps us measure how well we're living up to our commitments and identify where we can do better. Your response is confidential and entirely optional.

 

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