Senior DevOps Engineer - Secure Platforms & Data Pipelines

Raft; Air City (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully covered healthcare

401(k) with company match

Generous PTO and paid holidays

Job summary

Raft in New York is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure for data platforms essential to U.S. military operations. The role involves collaborating with data engineers to optimize data pipelines and ensure platform reliability.

Applicants should have over 5 years of DevOps experience with strong skills in Kubernetes and CI/CD. The position offers a hybrid work environment with up to 25% travel and requires active Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant hands‑on experience in DevOps or platform engineering roles.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting data‑intensive platforms using streaming technologies such as Kafka or Flink.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure Kubernetes‑based infrastructure.
• Build, manage, and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Optimize data streaming and processing pipelines.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Ansible

Kafka

Java

Go

Tools

GitLab

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Raft in New York is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure for data platforms essential to U.S. military operations. The role involves collaborating with data engineers to optimize data pipelines and ensure platform reliability.

Applicants should have over 5 years of DevOps experience with strong skills in Kubernetes and CI/CD. The position offers a hybrid work environment with up to 25% travel and requires active Secret clearance.