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Senior DevOps Engineer

Oahu, HI · Senior

No sponsorship$53k-$800kDetected 14 days ago
PythonJavaGoBashDistributed SystemsGitCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsPlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningData EngineeringAgentic AIMLOpsCybersecurity

About the role

  • These platforms must run reliably in cloud-hosted, classified on-premises, disconnected, and edge environments where security, repeatability, and customer trust are non-negotiable.
  • This role requires more than infrastructure fluency.
  • You should be comfortable reading application code, understanding data pipelines, debugging distributed systems, navigating regulated delivery constraints, and making pragmatic tradeoffs between security, delivery speed, operability, and mission urgency.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and continuously improve secure Kubernetes platform patterns for cloud, on-premises, disconnected, classified, and edge deployments
  • Own CI/CD and GitOps delivery architecture using GitHub Workflows, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize, and repository-managed configuration across multiple environments and classification levels
  • Lead DevSecOps practices including secure baselines, container hardening, SBOM generation, image signing, vulnerability management, dependency risk reduction, admission policy, secrets hygiene, and compliance-aware deployment gates
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and supporting automation to make platform provisioning, upgrades, rollback, and environment promotion repeatable
  • Partner with software, data, and ML engineers to understand service architecture, pipeline behavior, model-serving requirements, runtime dependencies, and production failure modes
  • Support and optimize data-intensive and MLOps workloads using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Pinot, KServe, Kubeflow, Ray, GPU-enabled nodes, and model-serving pipelines
  • Build and refine observability patterns using Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Loki, Kibana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Tempo, and alerting workflows that help teams diagnose issues quickly
  • Mentor junior engineers, establish repeatable engineering practices, review technical designs, and raise the quality bar for secure platform delivery

Requirements

  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevSecOps, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, security engineering, or a closely related role
  • 5+ years of production experience with Linux, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes-based application delivery
  • Experience with Terraform and Ansible or similar IaC and configuration management tooling for repeatable cloud and on-premises infrastructure delivery
  • Strong understanding of security and compliance practices in regulated or government environments, including RMF, STIGs, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and IL4/IL5/IL6 considerations
  • Experience designing observability patterns and operating production monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing systems
  • Ability to read, reason about, and contribute to application code in Go, Java, Python, or similar languages when deployment, reliability, or security requires it
  • Experience supporting data platforms, streaming pipelines, or MLOps workloads
  • familiarity with Kafka, Flink, Pinot, KServe, Kubeflow, Ray, or GPU-enabled workloads is strongly valued
  • Active Secret clearance required
  • must be eligible for and willing to obtain a Top Secret/SCI clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience owning secure platform patterns for multi-classification, air-gapped, disconnected, or classified environments

Compensation

  • $53k-$800k

Benefits

  • Strong Kubernetes troubleshooting skills across workloads, controllers, networking, storage, RBAC, admission control, runtime configuration, and cluster health

Company info

  • Raft ( https://TeamRaft.com ) 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.
  • What we are looking for:
  • Engage directly with customers and operational stakeholders in Hawaii to support deployments, resolve incidents, explain technical tradeoffs, and convert field lessons into durable platform improvements

Visa & Work Authorization

  • citizenship to be eligible for employment
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