SeniorDevOpsEngineer

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: Raft builds mission-critical data, AI, and operational platforms that process high-volume sensor, operational, and mission data across multiple classification levels. These platforms must run reliably in cloud-hosted, classified on-premises, disconnected, and edge environments where security, repeatability, and customer trust are non-negotiable. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will own the secure delivery patterns behind [R]DP, [R]AP, [R]AIMS, and Raft’s MLOps deployments. You will design and harden Kubernetes-based platform architecture, improve GitOps and CI/CD workflows, automate compliance evidence, mentor engineers, and work directly with software, data, ML, security, and customer teams to keep mission systems deployable and trustworthy. This role requires more than infrastructure fluency. You should be comfortable reading application code, understanding data pipelines, debugging distributed systems, navigating regulated delivery constraints, and making pragmatic tradeoffs between security, delivery speed, operability, and mission urgency. You will shape the golden paths that teams use to deliver secure mission software: Helm and GitOps patterns, hard