Cloud Engineer
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![]() United States, Colorado, Colorado Springs | |
![]() 1334 Stewart Avenue (Show on map) | |
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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 (https://TeamRaft.com) 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 McLean, VA. Our range of clients includes 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. About the role: As a Cloud Engineer, you will analyze cloud infrastructure needs across the company's product units while participating in OpenStack distribution selection and deployment. Your role involves designing and implementing private cloud infrastructure, ensuring integration with hybrid cloud platforms, and supporting the organization in maturing infrastructure into a fully automated, service-oriented, hybrid IT environment. This includes deployment and integration work with major cloud infrastructure providers (i.e. AWS, Azure), along with on-prem or edge cloud integration. You will automate and manage build pipelines, migrations, security and compliance processes, manage TCP/IP networking in cloud and on-premise environments, support data storage and data management solutions, and implement enterprise monitoring using industry standard technologies. You'll define and manage cloud-based infrastructure while performing necessary administrative tasks and providing platform support. You'll also support debugging, testing, updating, and associated ongoing maintenance activities with these environments.
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Our Vision Statement: We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession withthemission. 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 isUbuntu: IAm, BecauseWe 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. |