Staff DevSecOps Engineer

Summary

Join Raft, a customer-obsessed small business focused on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, as a Staff DevSecOps Engineer. This U.S.-based, remote position requires building and maintaining infrastructure as code on large-scale deployments. You will leverage your experience to scale platform capabilities, automate workflows, and troubleshoot production systems. The role involves collaboration with product owners and identifying performance bottlenecks. Raft offers a highly competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Eight-plus (8+) years of experience working in Operations, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
• Five plus (5+) years, building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters across hybrid-cloud infrastructure
• Five-plus (5+) years experience with Cloud service monitoring like Prometheus, Grafana, FluentD, ElasticStack, Prometheus, SumoLogic, etc
• Five-plus (5+) years in configuration / package management experience using tools like Terraform, Helm etc
• Five-plus (5+) years experience building and maintaining Elastic clusters on top of Kubernetes
• Five-plus (5+) years experience with log aggregation tools such as Elastic Agents, Logstash, or Loki and formatting logs to Elastic Common Schema
• Exceptionally proficient (knowledge and work experience) in Linux system administration
• Experience creating automation using APIs from AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• Able to obtain a Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a related field

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code on large scale multi-site deployments
• Evaluate and assess new ways to scale platform capabilities
• Automate workflows to help push the limit of the infrastructure and enable continuous delivery of capabilities onto a hybrid infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues until root causes are understood on high traffic production systems
• Participate in design and code review processes
• Interact with product owners to coordinate infrastructure changes
• Identify bottlenecks and improve performance of the platform
• Assist with GitLab CI pipelines (build/promote artifacts and security scans)

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid understanding of writing custom Helm Charts
• Experience with Big Data such as Kafka, Hadoop, and Cassandra
• Polyglot experience using a variety of programming languages and their package managers/dependency managers such as Maven, Gradle, NPM, and Yarn
• Proven experience with Istio service mesh
• Experience with supporting enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure
• Passionate about building automation in languages like Python, GoLang, or Typescript
• Certifications such as CKA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Active Secret security clearance

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
• Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs
• Remote, hybrid, and flexible work options
• Team off-site in fun places!
• Generous Referral Bonuses