Senior Engineer
Raft Company Website6 hours ago
St. Louis, MO, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code for distributed, containerized, and cloud-native application lifecycles.
- Architect, deploy, operate, and secure Kubernetes platforms across AWS and other cloud environments.
- Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, security scanning, deployment, and release management.
- Implement and mature GitOps workflows for continuous software delivery.
- Deploy and support platform-hosted services for tenant application teams across multiple impact levels.
- Build and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters and secure multi-tenant access to cloud-native services.
- Develop automation to improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Configure Kubernetes networking using Calico, Cilium, or equivalent Container Network Interfaces.
- Deploy and support observability platforms for monitoring, logging, and operational visibility.
- Collaborate with software, platform, and security engineers to integrate security throughout the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience deploying, operating, and securing production Kubernetes and Docker environments.
- Experience provisioning, hardening, and maintaining compliant Kubernetes clusters and operating stateful, highly available distributed services.
- Experience with Kubernetes architecture, Helm Charts, container networking, AWS or other cloud platforms, and enterprise workloads.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks.
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Runners, software packaging, artifact repositories, and build automation.
- Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Loki, Kibana, or similar tools.
- Must hold Security+ certification and CKA, CKAD, CKS, or a similar certification.
- Must be local to the Scott Air Force Base, Illinois area and hold an active Secret clearance.
- Preferred experience includes Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, Istio, Python, Go, Argo CD, Flux, complex CI/CD pipelines, and DoD, federal, or highly regulated production environments.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with on-site work at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
- Foreign and domestic travel to customer sites of up to 35%.
- Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Take-as-needed paid time off and 11 paid holidays.
- Education and training benefits.
- Generous referral bonuses.
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About Raft Company Website
Raft is a defense technology company that builds AI/ML, autonomous data fusion, and cloud-native software platforms for U.S. military and government agencies. It develops distributed data systems, DevSecOps/GitOps platforms, and applications to operate at scale in secure environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the privately held firm is backed by Washington Harbour Partners, which invested $60M in private equity funding in 2024.