• The Principal Platform Engineer shall have senior software engineering experience building and operating hybrid-infrastructure developer platforms (private and commercial cloud infrastructure) at an Individual Contributor Level.
• A successful candidate has prior experience deploying Kubernetes in multiple ways and supporting automation of platform management at the enterprise scale.
• The engineer shall have experience developing platform APIs that make common software operations scalable and repeatable.
• The engineer will feel comfortable maintaining the underlying services required to host containerized applications.
• The engineer will be at least a mid to senior-level engineer capable of mentoring junior developers and engineers.
• The engineer will also possess effective communication skills to interact with various stakeholders, internal and external to the organization
• Ideally, 5+ years' in-depth experience maintaining production-grade Kubernetes clusters with multiple teams using the clusters for development
• 5+ years' experience building production services with cloud infrastructure such as AWS (preferred, or at least last 1-2 years), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
• 3+ years' experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go
• Managed infrastructure and developed APIs/platform services for tenants to use container services
• Working experience with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch
• Comfortable provisioning and debugging complex CI/CD pipelines
• Extensive experience in containerizing applications using Docker and orchestrating them on managed platforms
• Experienced in building data-intensive platforms and using open-source technologies
• Enjoy collaborating with the team to plan story points, sprint themes, etc
• Experience with at least one agile methodology, including Scrum or Kanban
• Loves to demo work to team and stakeholders
• Obtain Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
• Active Secret security clearance

Desirable

• Provide guidance for the design and architecture of provisioning/maintaining Kubernetes clusters at a massive scale
• Implement rapid proof of concept and pilots of new capabilities to demonstrate the feasibility of new solutions to application developers and the rest of the platform integration team
• Work closely with the client and other key stakeholders to provide strategic input and help navigate needs and tradeoffs to build extensible digital solutions