Senior Software 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:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Defensive Cyber Operations for Space (DCO-S) Kraken (in band) development team, you will be the backbone of our in band value stream for the Digital Blood Hound project, building and maintaining the COTS tools, Deployment automation, and CI/CD pipelines that enable our software teams to ship code efficiently and securely. You will move away from application-layer development to focus on Detection as Code (DaC), value stream model, within a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Operating System and Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) deployment model. This is a hands-on technical role for someone who loves solving technical design patterns with the approved Tools and building stable value streams that allow our mission site end users to uncover threats that are outside the Heuristic Baseline Machine Learning models discovered at the air gapped mission system network and application levels. 

Responsibilities will include: 

• Build step-by-step approach to setting up basic event-driven automation using Ansible Rulebooks and ansible.eda.range module.
• Infrastructure Automation: Design, develop, and maintain Ansible EDA playbooks and roles to automate the provisioning and configuration of RHEL servers and infrastructure
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Own the Kraken GitLab CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless integration and delivery of software artifacts
• Containerization: Manage containerized applications and environments using Podman, ensuring efficient resource utilization and isolation
• System Administration: Perform advanced administration of COTS tools and Cloud Dev environments, including patching, security hardening, and performance tuning
• Tooling & Scripting: Develop custom automation scripts and tools using EDA, Python and Shell (Bash) to streamline operational tasks
• Collaboration: Work closely with security, platform and Cloud engineers to troubleshoot deployment issues and optimize the development feedback loop

What we are looking for: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field with 18+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 10+ year of experience
• Deep understanding of Linux fundamentals, specifically Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Hands-on experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management
• Proficiency with GitLab (administering runners, writing .gitlab-ci.yml configurations, and managing repositories)
• Strong programming skills in Ansible, Python and Shell/Bash scripting for automation and system tasks
• Experience running and managing containers using Docker or Podman
• Obtain Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft

Highly preferred:

• Experience configuring and managing Red Hat IdM (Identity Management) or FreeIPA