Senior Engineer

This is a U.S. based position. All of the programs we support require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment. All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.

Who we are:

Raft () is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions. We are a leader in autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems Platforms at Scale and Complex Application Development. With headquarters in McLean VA our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking cutting-edge tech stack and cloud-native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Engineer with an active Top Secret/SCI clearance to play a pivotal role in automating and orchestrating our critical infrastructure. This position is ideal for a technical expert passionate about deploying managing and optimizing system infrastructures using the latest technologies in system automation container orchestration and open-source applications. Youll be based in San Diego CA and work on projects vital to national security and technological advancement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop package validate and maintain versioned enterprise platform releases.
• Assemble and manage release artifacts consisting of:
  
  • Infrastructure automation content (Ansible playbooks roles collections Puppet modules and related automation artifacts)
  • Kubernetes application deployments
  • Helm charts
  • Container images
  • RPM packages
  • Custom platform applications
  • Supporting software dependencies
• Manage versioning dependency tracking software inventories Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) and authoritative release manifests.
• Maintain configuration baselines and ensure all platform components are accurately versioned traceable auditable and reproducible.
• Validate release artifacts to ensure completeness integrity and deployment readiness prior to release.
• Coordinate vulnerability scanning of container images RPMs operating system packages and other software artifacts.
• Generate maintain and track Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) associated with identified software and infrastructure vulnerabilities.
• Ensure software supply chain integrity by validating that release artifacts originate from approved and trusted repositories and have successfully completed required security validation activities.
• Develop and maintain release documentation including:
  
  • files
  • Release Notes
  • Version manifests
  • Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs)
  • Installation procedures
  • Upgrade procedures
  • Rollback procedures
• Develop and maintain automated release workflows utilizing GitLab CI/CD and related DevSecOps tooling.
• Coordinate release promotion across development integration testing staging and production environments.
• Support software configuration management activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering Cybersecurity Software Development and Operations teams to ensure consistent secure and repeatable platform deployments.
• Support RMF authorization and continuous monitoring activities by providing release documentation software inventories SBOMs vulnerability documentation POA&Ms and other configuration management artifacts required to support accreditation

Required Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.
• Bachelors degreein Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or a related technical discipline andten (10) yearsof relevant professional experience;or Masters degreein a related technical discipline andfive (5) yearsof relevant professional experience;or fifteen (15) yearsof relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure automation using technologies such as Ansible Puppet Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code solutions.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes-based environments and containerized applications.
• Experience with Git-based development workflows and source control.
• Experience developing or supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of software configuration management release engineering artifact management software supply chain management and version control principles.
• Experience supporting Linux enterprise environments.
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills

Preferred Skills:

• Experience supporting classified or disconnected environments.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience with Harbor or other OCI container registries.
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes application lifecycle management.
• Experience with RKE2 or other enterprise Kubernetes distributions.
• Experience supporting software vulnerability management and container image scanning.
• Experience generating or maintaining Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs).
• Experience generating and maintaining POA&Ms for software and infrastructure vulnerabilities.
• Experience supporting RMF authorization packages and continuous monitoring activities.
• Familiarity with RMF DISA STIGs JSIG secure software supply chain practices and Configuration Management (CM) processes.
• Experience supporting enterprise Platform Engineering teams.

Clearance Requirements:

• Active Top Secret with ability to obtain and maintain SCI

Work Type:

• Onsite in San Diego Ca
• Relocation provided
• May require up to 10% travel

Salary Range: $100000 - $185000

• The determination of compensation is predicated upon a candidates comprehensive experience demonstrated skill and proven abilities

What we will offer you:

• Highly competitive salary
• Fully covered healthcare dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Take as you need PTO 14 paid holidays
• Generous Referral Bonuses
• And More!

Our Vision Statement:

We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession withthemission.

Our Customer Obsession:

We will approach every deliverable like its 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 thinkingand collaboration is a norm.

Rafts core philosophy isUbuntu: IAm BecauseWe are. We support ournadiby 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.

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