Engineer, Systems Engineer

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.

Raft () 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.

We are seeking an Platform Engineer with an active Top Secret/SCI clearance to play a pivotal role in automating and orchestrating our critical infrastructure. This position is ideal for a technical expert passionate about deploying, managing, and optimizing system infrastructures using the latest technologies in system automation, container orchestration, and open-source applications. You'll be based in San Diego, CA and work on projects vital to national security and technological advancement.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation solutions utilizing Ansible, Git Ops principles, and declarative configuration management.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines supporting enterprise platform deployments.
• Develop automation to deploy, configure, validate, and maintain Kubernetes-based applications and supporting platform services.
• Support application onboarding through development, integration, testing, staging, and production environments utilizing automated deployment pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Git Ops workflows supporting application lifecycle management and platform deployments.
• Establish and improve governance processes supporting application promotion across engineering environments.
• Identify inefficiencies within existing Dev Sec Ops  workflows and develop automation to improve deployment reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with application vendors and software development teams to integrate new applications into the enterprise platform.
• Develop automation supporting Configuration Management activities and improve visibility into configuration compliance across multiple environments.
• Develop and maintain automation supporting operating system configuration, platform provisioning, application deployment, and infrastructure validation.
• Implement systems engineering principles throughout the software development lifecycle to improve platform quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Development, and Operations teams to ensure secure, repeatable, and automated platform deployments.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures and develop automated solutions to improve platform resiliency.
• Prepare technical documentation, implementation guides, architecture documentation, and operational procedures supporting developed automation.

• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.
• Bachelor's degree
  in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline and
  ten (10) years
  of relevant professional experience;
  or Master's degree
  in a related technical discipline and
  five (5) years
  of relevant professional experience;
  or fifteen (15) years
  of relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience developing automation utilizing
  
  Ansible.
• Experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management solutions.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes-based environments and containerized applications.
• Experience with Git Ops methodologies and Git-based development workflows.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines utilizing Git Lab CI/CD or similar technologies.
• Experien…