Raft Company Website - Senior Engineer
Requirements
• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related field. • 5+ years of hands-on experience deploying, operating, and securing production Kubernetes and Docker environments. • Experience provisioning, hardening, and maintaining compliant Kubernetes clusters. • Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, Helm Charts, and container networking technologies including Calico, Cilium, or similar solutions. • Experience operating stateful, highly available, and distributed services in Kubernetes environments. • Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms supporting enterprise workloads. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks. • Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Runners. • Experience with software packaging, artifact repositories, and build automation for distributed applications. • Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Loki, Kibana, or similar observability tools. • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in complex production environments. • Ability to obtain a Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment. • Highly preferred: • Highly preferred: • Experience with package and dependency management tools including Maven, Gradle, NPM, and Yarn. • Experience implementing and supporting Istio service mesh. • Experience supporting enterprise cloud platforms and large-scale infrastructure. • Proficiency in automation and scripting using Python or Go. • Experience designing, provisioning, troubleshooting, and optimizing complex CI/CD pipelines. • Experience with GitOps platforms such as Argo CD or Flux. • Experience supporting DoD, federal, or highly regulated production environments. • Active Secret clearance required
Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) supporting distributed, containerized, and cloud-native application lifecycles. • Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes platforms across AWS and other cloud environments. • Design, implement, and optimize secure, performant CI/CD pipelines that automate testing, security scanning, deployment, and release management. • Implement and mature GitOps workflows using modern GitOps tooling for continuous software delivery. • Deploy, configure, and support platform hosted services in support of DOW tenant application teams across multiple impact levels. • Build and maintain highly available, production-grade Kubernetes clusters while ensuring compliance with security and operational standards. • Securely provide multi-tenant access to cloud native services. • Develop automation to improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. • Configure and maintain Kubernetes networking technologies including Calico, Cilium, or equivalent Container Network Interfaces (CNIs). • Deploy and support observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Loki, Kibana, and related monitoring and logging solutions. • Collaborate with software, platform, and security engineers to integrate security throughout the development lifecycle.
Benefits
• Work Type: • Remote with a preference for candidates based in Colorado Springs, CO and McLean, VA • What we will offer you: • Highly competitive salary • Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage • 401(k) and company match • Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays • Education & training benefits • Generous Referral Bonuses • Our Vision Statement: • We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission. • Our Customer Obsession: • We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies. • How do we get there? • Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm. • Raft’s core philosophy is Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our “nadi” by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration. • Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are
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