Senior 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. Who we are: 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. About the Role: We are seeking a Senior 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. Key Responsibilities: Develop, package, validate, and maintain versioned enterprise platform releases. Assemble and manage release artifacts consisting of: Infrastructure automation content (Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, Puppet modules, and related automation artifacts) Kubernetes application deployments Helm charts Container images RPM packages Custom platform applications Supporting software dependencies Manage versioning, dependency tracking, software inventories, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), and authoritative release manifests. Maintain configuration baselines and ensure all platform components are accurately versioned, traceable, auditable, and reproducible. Validate release artifacts to ensure completeness, integrity, and deployment readiness prior to release. Coordinate vulnerability scanning of container images, RPMs, operating system packages, and other software artifacts. Generate, maintain, and track Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) associated with identified software and infrastructure vulnerabilities. Ensure software supply chain integrity by validating that release artifacts originate from approved and trusted repositories and have successfully completed required security validation activities. Develop and maintain release documentation, including: README.md files Release Notes Version manifests Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) Installation procedures Upgrade procedures Rollback procedures Develop and maintain automated release workflows utilizing GitLab CI/CD and related DevSecOps tooling. Coordinate release promotion across development, integration, testing, staging, and production environments. Support software configuration management activities throughout the software development lifecycle. Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Development, and Operations teams to ensure consistent, secure, and repeatable platform deployments. Support RMF authorization and continuous monitoring activities by providing release documentation, software inventories, SBOMs, vulnerability documentation, POA&Ms, and other configuration management artifacts required to support accreditation Required Qualifications: 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 deg…