About the role

Role Overview

As a Senior Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable platform infrastructure for mission-critical applications across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. You’ll lead automation for software delivery, infrastructure provisioning, and security integration in close partnership with software, cybersecurity, and customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for distributed, containerized, cloud-native application lifecycles.
Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes platforms across AWS and other cloud environments.
Design and optimize secure CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, security scanning, deployment, and release management.
Implement and mature GitOps workflows for continuous delivery using GitOps tooling.
Deploy and support production, multi-tenant platform services for tenant application teams.
Maintain highly available, production-grade Kubernetes clusters aligned with security and operational standards.
Provide secure multi-tenant access to cloud-native services.
Improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency via automation.
Configure and maintain Kubernetes networking using Calico, Cilium, or equivalent CNIs.
Support observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Loki, Kibana, and related monitoring/logging tools.
Collaborate with security and engineering teams to integrate security across the development lifecycle.

Requirements

5+ years in DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related fields.
5+ years hands-on experience deploying, operating, and securing production Kubernetes and Docker.
Experience provisioning, hardening, and maintaining compliant Kubernetes clusters.
Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, Helm, and container networking (Calico/Cilium or similar).
Experience operating stateful, highly available, distributed services on Kubernetes.
Experience with AWS (or other enterprise cloud platforms).
IaC experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
CI/CD pipeline configuration experience using GitLab Runners.
Experience with artifact repositories/build automation for distributed applications.
Observability/logging experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Loki, Kibana (or similar).

Location / Eligibility

U.S.-based position: requires U.S. citizenship.
Work must be performed within the continental U.S.

About Raft

Raft is a customer-obsessed defense technology company delivering cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions for U.S. military and government agencies. The company focuses on autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI, with platform and distributed data systems supporting mission-critical applications.