Jobs at Raft

Plan and assess joint air operations for an Air Operations Center Strategy Division. Responsibilities include mission analysis, threat assessment, JAOP and AOD development, STRAT/TET/MAAP planning, operational briefings, coordination with military and coalition planners, and maintaining plans using JOPPA. The role requires extensive AOC and joint planning experience, an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, U.S. citizenship, onsite work at Hickam AFB, and up to 25% travel.

Support Kubernetes-based platforms and DevSecOps workflows across cloud, on-premises, disconnected, and classified environments. Responsibilities include CI/CD and GitOps automation, secure delivery, infrastructure troubleshooting, observability, service deployment, data and MLOps platform support, scripting, compliance implementation, and operational documentation. The role requires collaboration with software, data, platform, and security engineers, active Secret clearance, eligibility for TS/SCI, and up to 30% travel.

Manage agile projects within broader programs, coordinating timelines, budgets, resources, deliverables, and task delegation. Report project progress and changes to program leadership, create implementation documentation, contribute to metrics, and apply Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, cloud, and DoD cybersecurity expertise. The role supports Platform One and software factory environments, requires U.S. citizenship and Secret clearance eligibility, and may involve up to 10% travel.

Supports Kubernetes-based platforms across cloud, on-premises, disconnected, classified, and tactical environments. Builds CI/CD and GitOps workflows, deploys Helm charts, troubleshoots services and networking, improves observability, and applies secure software delivery practices. Works with data and MLOps workloads, develops automation, documents operational procedures, and supports compliance with government security frameworks. The role is hybrid in Colorado Springs and requires up to 30% travel, U.S. citizenship, and Secret clearance or eligibility for Top Secret/SCI.

Build end-to-end features for a data-focused product using backend and frontend technologies. Develop REST APIs, React interfaces, scalable database solutions, and cloud-native applications. Work with distributed systems, containers, and clusters while contributing to software architecture and complex project lifecycles. The role is onsite in Chantilly, Virginia, requires active TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship, and may involve up to 25% travel.

The DevOps Engineer builds, secures, deploys, and troubleshoots Kubernetes-based platforms across cloud, on-premises, disconnected, classified, and tactical environments. Responsibilities include CI/CD and GitOps workflows, infrastructure as code, container security, observability, service deployment, data and MLOps workloads, automation, compliance, and operational documentation. The role requires collaboration with software, data, platform, and security engineers and includes up to 30% travel.

Own the software development lifecycle across complex environments by building secure CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, managing Linux and cloud systems, configuring identity platforms, applying STIG compliance, and integrating applications across security realms. The role includes administering Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, GitLab, AWS, Keycloak, Nginx, Splunk, and enterprise collaboration systems while supporting secure staging and production deployments.

Develop and execute automated software performance and security tests, analyze test results and root causes, coordinate defect remediation, and improve testing procedures. Build test environments, plans, cases, and automation scripts for web services. Validate response times, feedback, error codes, XML, and JSON payloads while applying REST methods and OAuth authentication. The role is onsite in Colorado Springs, supports defense and government programs, requires U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance, and may involve up to 10% travel.

Build and architect fault-tolerant, large-scale real-time data platforms and streaming applications for DoD customers. Responsibilities include developing Kafka, Flink, and Kafka Streams infrastructure; creating ETL pipelines; managing relational and non-relational databases; applying software architecture patterns; and supporting cloud-native deployments. The role also involves technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and contributing to high-performance systems processing over one billion events daily.

Serve as the embedded senior software engineering lead at Fort Hood, deploying, integrating, and sustaining data, AI, and application platforms for Army customers. Write production code, troubleshoot Kubernetes and DevSecOps environments, integrate mission data systems, create reproducible runbooks, support secure field deployments, enable operators, and translate customer feedback into product improvements. The role is onsite, requires an active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship, and includes up to 30% travel.

Build and evolve a real-time DoD data platform processing more than one billion daily events at millisecond latency. Lead and support software teams, develop distributed data solutions, create WebSocket and REST APIs, and work hands-on with Kafka, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Java, Scala, and Kubernetes. The role involves time-series and geospatial data, collaboration across teams, obtaining Security+ certification within 90 days, and obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret clearance.

Coordinate configuration management within SAFe and DevSecOps teams, maintaining documentation, configuration items, change control processes, and CM plans aligned with SSC policies and NIST 800-53. Automate CM workflows using approved tools, support compliance with Quality teams, deliver software artifacts, and coordinate across project management, risk, quality, development, testing, fielding, sustainment, and cloud services teams.

Build and maintain large-scale data infrastructure, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native data applications for a Department of Defense platform. Design systems using Kafka, Flink, Kafka Streams, databases, Kubernetes, and related technologies. Collaborate with experienced engineers to deliver fault-tolerant, low-latency data platforms, while supporting enterprise cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and data governance.

Build and deploy mission-critical distributed data platforms for defense and government customers. Responsibilities include collaborating with operators and stakeholders, onboarding and transforming DoD datasets, developing data platform features, using streaming and search technologies, evaluating COTS and open-source tools, and creating proofs of concept to validate solutions.

Build end-to-end data-focused product features across backend and frontend systems. Develop REST APIs, React interfaces, and cloud-native applications using distributed databases, containers, and open-source data technologies. Own complex software design, architecture, implementation, releases, and project lifecycles. The role supports defense and government customers, requires U.S. citizenship, eligibility for Top Secret/SCI clearance, onsite work in Tampa or Tacoma, and up to 30% travel.

Provide Systems Engineering and technical assistance for defensive cyber solutions across ground and space domains. Develop and deploy software, manage and monitor hardware/software systems, assist with network tap design and system surveys, evaluate systems for refresh, and lead or support hardware installation and software deployments at mission sites. Work closely with customers, stakeholders, and agile teams.

Lead technical design and execution for an AI/ML mission platform: drive architecture decisions, lead major engineering epics, simplify distributed systems, optimize edge and cloud performance, mentor engineers, integrate ML models and inference pipelines, and represent technical capabilities to DoD stakeholders.

Deploy, automate, and maintain enterprise platform infrastructure using IaC, Ansible, GitOps, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. Build GitOps workflows, automate configuration management, onboard applications, ensure secure automated deployments, troubleshoot failures, and produce technical documentation for classified national-security platforms.

Join Raft to innovate national defense technology. Collaborate on AI, machine learning, and UX/UI design to create impactful defense solutions.

Design, build, and operate secure, production-grade Kubernetes/Docker clusters and CI/CD/GitOps pipelines for a real-time, data-intensive DoD platform. Work with streaming tech (Kafka/Pinot/Flink), IaC, monitoring/logging, and cloud infrastructure to enable millisecond-latency event processing and operational decisioning.