Senior Platform Engineer – Infra Automation & Kubernetes

Raft; Chula Vista (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Relocation provided

Travel up to 10%

Job summary

Raft, a U.S.-based defense tech company, seeks a Senior Engineer with an active Top Secret/SCI clearance to automate and orchestrate our infrastructure. You’ll be based in San Diego, CA, working on national-security focused projects within the continental U.S.

You will develop and maintain enterprise platform releases, manage artifacts (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm charts, SBOMs), ensure secure software supply chains, and contribute to RMF authorization efforts.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher with substantial professional experience.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop, package, validate, and maintain versioned enterprise platform releases.
• Assemble and manage release artifacts: infrastructure automation content (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform), Kubernetes deployments, Helm charts, container images, RPMs, applications, SBOMs, dependencies.
• Maintain versioning, dependency tracking, software inventories, SBOMs, and release manifests.
• Validate release artifacts for completeness, integrity, and deployment readiness.
• Coordinate vulnerability scanning of container images, RPMs, OS packages, and artifacts.
• Produce and maintain POA&Ms for vulnerabilities.
• Ensure supply chain integrity by validating sources and security validation.
• Develop release docs: READMEs, Release Notes, Version manifests, SBOMs, installation/upgrade/rollback procedures.
• Develop and maintain automated release workflows using GitLab CI/CD and related DevSecOps tooling.
• Coordinate release promotion across environments.
• Support software configuration management throughout SDLC.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Development, and Operations teams.
• Support RMF authorization and continuous monitoring by providing release docs, SBOMs, vulnerability docs, POA&Ms, and CM artifacts.

Skills

Security clearance (TS/SCI)

System automation

Kubernetes

Git-based workflows

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / related field

Ten or more years of experience OR Master’s with 5 years OR 15 years experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Harbor

OCI registries

Job description

Raft, a U.S.-based defense tech company, seeks a Senior Engineer with an active Top Secret/SCI clearance to automate and orchestrate our infrastructure. You’ll be based in San Diego, CA, working on national-security focused projects within the continental U.S.

You will develop and maintain enterprise platform releases, manage artifacts (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm charts, SBOMs), ensure secure software supply chains, and contribute to RMF authorization efforts.