Staff Platform Engineer
Raft Company Website•Hanscom AFB, MA
•Onsite
About The Position
Our team is rapidly growing and looking for an experienced Staff Platform Engineer to lead development 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years creating, maintaining, and leading teams building production Kubernetes clusters via managed services (AKS, EKS, GKE) and/or self-managed installers (EKS-A, RKE2, or similar), including workload management and troubleshooting at enterprise scale
- 3+ years managing Kubernetes network resources (CNI solutions, NetworkPolicies, etc.)
- Experience deploying and maintaining platform services and tooling (Istio, Keycloak, Vault, Harbor, ArgoCD, CertManager, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, FluentBit/FluentD), including metrics scraping and monitoring dashboard configuration
- 5+ years building production services on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including compute (EC2/EBS, Azure VMs) and network resources (VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, VNets, NSGs)
- 5+ years building developer platform services and APIs at production scale
- 3+ years in Identity and Access Lifecycle Management Operations and Controls
- Active Secret clearance; must obtain Security+ within 90 days of hir
Nice To Haves
- Experience hardening Kubernetes clusters via RBAC, Audit Policies, admission controllers (OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno), image scanning (Trivy, Sysdig, NeuVector), NetworkPolicies, and CIS/CISA/NSA hardening guidance
- CI/CD experience writing automation to deploy Kubernetes applications at scale
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
- Experience deploying, maintaining, and monitoring on-premises compute infrastructure (blade servers, edge devices, VMware VMs, etc.)
- Experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go
- Experience building data-intensive platforms
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) and company match
- Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
- Education & training benefits
- Generous Referral Bonuses
- And More!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
