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 (https://TeamRaft.com) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business 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.
We’re looking for an experienced Staff DevSecOps Engineer to support our customers and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers.
About the role:
As a Staff DevSecOps Engineer, you should be able to build and maintain infrastructure as code on large scale multi-site deployments. You will utilize your experience to evaluate and assess new ways to scale platform capabilities. You will be able to automate workflows to help push the limit of the infrastructure and enable continuous delivery of capabilities onto a hybrid infrastructure. You will troubleshoot issues until root causes are understood on high traffic production systems, participate in design and code review processes, interact with product owners to coordinate infrastructure changes and be responsible for identifying bottlenecks and improving performance of the platform.
What we are looking for:
- Eight-plus (8+) years of experience working in Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Five plus (5+) years, building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters across hybrid-cloud infrastructure
- Five-plus (5+) years experience with Cloud service monitoring like Prometheus, Grafana, FluentD, ElasticStack, Prometheus, SumoLogic, etc.
- Five-plus (5+) years in configuration / package management experience using tools like Terraform, Helm etc.
- Five-plus (5+) years experience building and maintaining Elastic clusters on top of Kubernetes
- Five-plus (5+) years experience with log aggregation tools such as Elastic Agents, Logstash, or Loki and formatting logs to Elastic Common Schema
- Ability to assist with GitLab CI pipelines (build/promote artifacts and security scans)
- Exceptionally proficient (knowledge and work experience) in Linux system administration
- Experience creating automation using APIs from AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
- Able to obtain a Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a related field
Highly preferred:
- Solid understanding of writing custom Helm Charts
- Experience with Big Data such as Kafka, Hadoop, and Cassandra
- Polyglot experience using a variety of programming languages and their package managers/dependency managers such as Maven, Gradle, NPM, and Yarn
- Proven experience with Istio service mesh
- Experience with supporting enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure
- Passionate about building automation in languages like Python, GoLang, or Typescript
- Certifications such as CKA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Clearance Requirements:
- Active Secret security clearance
Work Type:
- Remote
- May require up to 10% travel
Salary Range:
- $120,000 - $190,000
- The determination of compensation is predicated upon a candidate's comprehensive experience, demonstrated skill, and proven abilities
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
- Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs
- Remote, hybrid, and flexible work options
- Team off-site in fun places!
- Generous Referral Bonuses
- And More!
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.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
