Principal Cloud Engineer

Principal Platform Engineer

Raft is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business 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.

About the Role

The Principal Platform Engineer shall have senior software engineering experience building and operating cloud native and hybrid-infrastructure developer platforms (commercial, govcloud, SIPR, and on-prem cloud infrastructure) at an Individual Contributor Level. A successful candidate has prior experience deploying AWS resources in multiple ways and supporting automation of platform management at the enterprise scale.

What We Are Looking For

Bachelor Degree in computer science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree; or equivalent industry experience

Five-plus (5+) years of experience building production services using Cloud Infrastructure Providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

Three-plus (3+) years' experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go

Three-plus (3+) years of experience in Identity and Access Lifecycle Management Operations and Controls.

Demonstrates deep understanding of modern microservices architectures, design patterns, resiliency techniques, and optimizations.

Experience with managing, reporting, and facilitating certification of access for all in-scope resources (including SaaS, AWS, Azure, CSS managed applications, tools, and systems).

Five-plus (5+) years of experience leading teams building and developing containerized services deployed in production on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

Five-plus (5+) years of experience building developer platform services and APIs that scale in production.

Experience working closely with the client and other key stakeholders to provide strategic input and help navigate needs and tradeoffs to build extensible digital solutions

Experience managing infrastructure and developed APIs / platform services for tenants to use container services

Experience with Linux operating system

Enjoy collaborating with the team to plan story points, sprint themes, etc

Experience with at least one agile methodology, including Scrum or Kanban

Ability to obtain a Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft

Clearance Requirements

Active Secret security clearance required

Work Type

Onsite in Hascom AFB, MA; OR Langley AFB, VA

May require up to 10% travel

Salary Range

140,000 - $185,000

The determination of compensation is predicated upon a candidate's comprehensive experience, demonstrated skill, and proven abilities

What We Will Offer You

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!

Our Vision Statement

We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.

Our Customer Obsession

We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.

How Do We Get There?

Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm. Raft's core philosophy is Ubuntu : I Am, Because We Are. We support our "nadi" by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.