Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Who we are:

Raft (https://goraft.tech) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business with purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, with headquarters in Reston, VA. Our range of clients include 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.

Our team is rapidly growing and looking for an experienced Senior DevSecOps Engineer to lead DevOps efforts and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers. We enjoy the challenges of human-centered design, security, and scale to create better outcomes for our federal agency partners. We are a remote-first and work completely in the open source.

What you will do:

• Architect, develop, and implement end-to-end cluster and application life cycles
• Work with the development team in architecting, developing, and implementing cloud solutions
• Implement cybersecurity best practices
• Develop and implement CI/CD pipelines
• Implement GitOps for Software Delivery

Required Qualifications:

• Someone eager to provide input to the customer and likes collaborating with a team
• Someone who wants to be seen as a thought leader and willing to tackle hard problems
• Continuous learner with a passion for teaching others in the team
• Obtain Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• In-depth, hands-on experience building platforms at scale for containerized workloads, particularly leveraging Kubernetes, including cluster provisioning, operations, workload optimization, custom controllers/operators, workflow orchestration, logging monitoring, security, and troubleshooting.
• Experience working in Kubernetes environments and deploying applications following CI/CD pipelines into Kubernetes. 
• Support and improve DevOps solutions for continuous build, automated testing and release management. 
• Strong familiarity with DevOps software configuration management systems and tools: Git, GitLab CI, Artifactory, Ansible/Terraform.
• Experience integrating security solutions into CI\CD pipelines.
• Experience working in Agile environments with multiple development teams. 
• Ability to effectively communicate with different stakeholders (both technical and non-technical) and provide solutions and presentations as needed.
  

Highly preferred:

• Hands-on experience working with DevSecOps in a DoD environment
• Familiarity with DoD software factories

Clearance Requirements:

• Current Active TS/SCI Security Clearance

Position Type and Location: 

• Hybrid - San Antonio, TX

What we will offer you:

• Highly competitive salary
• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) and company match
• Unlimited PTO + 11 paid holidays
• Education & training benefits
• Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs
• Monthly box of yummy snacks to eat while doing meaningful work
• 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.