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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 () is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, with headquarters in Reston, VA. Our range of clients include 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.
We're looking for an experienced Principal Platform Engineer to support our customer and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers.
About the role:
As a Principal Platform Engineer,you are responsible for the deployment, management, and maintenance of virtual and physical compute infrastructure to support Kubernetes platforms in cloud, on premises, and at the edge. Common tasks include designing, deploying, and maintaining physical and virtual infrastructure architectures to provide compute resources (i.e., CPU, RAM, storage, and GPU) to Kubernetes clusters; deploying, managing and maintaining physical and virtual compute resources (e.g., AWS EC2 and EBS resources in region, on Outposts rack, and on Snowball Edge); developing and deploying Linux and/or Windows servers; developing and maintaining storage arrays; deploying and maintaining Kubernetes CSI systems; and the creation and maintenance of automation scripts and pipelines.
What we are looking for:
Highly preferred:
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Our Vision Statement:
We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.
Our Customer Obsession:
We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.
How do we get there?
Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm.
Raft's core philosophy is Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our "nadi" by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Full Time
$104k-131k (estimate)
04/28/2024
06/27/2024
goraft.tech
Reston, VA
<25
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