\nWho we are:\n\nRaft (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.\nWe’re looking for an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to support our customers and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers.\n\nAbout the role: \n\nAs a DevSecOps Engineer, you are responsible for actively developing and implementing end-to-end cluster and application lifecycles, ensuring processes are both secure and efficient. Collaborate with clients, designing and implementing Kubernetes or Docker solutions. Take part in building CI/CD pipelines, ensuring a smooth software update process. Furthermore, actively participate in the application of GitOps principles for software delivery.\n\nWhat we are looking for:\n\n\n3+ years of Python software development experience\n\n3+ years of Bash scripting experience\n\n3+ years of Linux System Administration experience\n\n3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes or Docker, provisioning production clusters and maintaining their compliance\n\n3+ years of automated DevOps (ex. Building pipelines) or cloud infrastructure (ex. AWS, Azure) experience\n\n3+ years of automating builds for Docker or OCI containers\n\nSkilled in building Gitlab CICD pipeline templates and jobs\n\nAbility to implement and improve development and security best practices by building necessary CICD pipeline jobs (linting, SCA, SAST, vulnerability scanning)\n\nFamiliarity with cosign for signing and verifying container images and attestations\n\nExperienced in developing, troubleshooting, maintaining build automation for applications and images, and developing end-to-end application testing\n\nProven background in software systems development via CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab Pipelines)\n\nExposure to Agile, DevOps, and DevSecOps methodologies, practices, and culture\n\nStrong knowledge of version control systems like Gitlab, with the ability to maintain/operate Gitlab in the cloud or on-premises\n\nProblem-solving aptitude\n\nExpertise in designing and implementing enterprise-grade, scalable cloud-based services to support our development teams\n\nFamiliarity with GitOps tools, i.e., FluxCD, ArgoCD\n\nKnowledge of Log Management and Analytics tools such as PLG/Splunk/ELK\n\nBackground in building, deployment, release automation, or orchestration\n\nProficiency in writing Unit/Integration/e2e testing (e.g., Junit, Cypress, Selenium)\n\nSkilled in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, etc.)\n\nObtain Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft\n\n\n\n\nHighly preferred: \n\n\n2+ years of experience with Spring Boot (Java development), in particular the Spring Cloud Gateway library.\n\nProficiency in building CLI applications in Python\n\nSkilled in working with file scanning applications (e.g., virus scanning tools)\n\nExperience using FastAPI to develop web applications in Python\n\nExpertise in implementing Sigstore and Cosign to sign container images as well as SBOMs\n\nSkilled in hardening application containers\n\nProven background with Istio service mesh\n\nBackground in defensive or offensive cyber capability development\n\nPassionate about automation, system efficiency, and security\n\n\n\n\nClearance Requirements:\n\n\nActive Top Secret security clearance with SCI Eligibility\n\n\n\n\nWork Type: \n\n\nRemote (Local to San Antonio, TX)\n\nMay require up to 10% travel\n\n\n\n\nSalary Range:\n\n\n$90,000 - $170,000\n\nThe determination of compensation is predicated upon a candidate's comprehensive experience, demonstrated skill, and proven abilities\n\n\n\n\nWhat we will offer you: \n\n\nHighly competitive salary\n\nFully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage\n\n401(k) and company match\n\nTake as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays\n\nEducation & training benefits\n\nAnnual budget for your tech/gadgets needs\n\nMonthly box of yummy snacks to eat while doing meaningful work\n\nRemote, hybrid, and flexible work options\n\nTeam off-site in fun places!\n\nGenerous Referral Bonuses\n\nAnd More!\n\n\n\n\nOur Vision Statement: \n\nWe bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission. \n\nOur Customer Obsession: \n\nWe 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.\n\nHow do we get there? \n\nPublic-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. \n\nRaft’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.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Docker, DevOps, Cloud and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Antonio, Texas, United States

\nThis is a fully remote position. \n\nWork on things that matter\nAd Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to design and engineer government systems that connect Veterans with services, bring affordable health care to millions of people, and support important programs like Head Start. And as we work to make critical government services intuitive, accessible, and human-centered, we’re also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology. If you thrive on change, want to help close the gap between consumer expectations and government services, and can see the possibilities in ambiguity, then we want you here with us. \n\nWhat matters most\nAd Hoc operates according to our commitment to inclusivity, acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We believe in missions larger than our individual selves and leave our egos at the door, learn from our mistakes, and iterate in order to better serve the people in our country. We prioritize building teams that represent the diversity of the people our government serves. We love the challenge of government-size projects. We want to bring skills to federal agencies, help them better meet the needs of their users, and close the gap between consumer expectations and government. \n\nBuilt for a remote life\nAd Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide distributed team since the beginning. Being remote by design allows Ad Hoc to be thoughtful and intentional about creating diverse teams and supporting them with a work environment that fits their lives. With a generous PTO policy and Slack channels for every interest (from bird watching to space nerds to parenting) our culture embraces the things happening in your life. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s embraced. \n\nThe CMS business unit covers our work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, including HealthCare.gov, Medicare.gov, and the Blue Button API. Our team supports CMS in building and improving online public experiences and APIs that are reliable, accessible, and user-centered. We are deeply embedded within CMS, partnering agency-wide to include with the Office of Communications, Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Our work includes helping millions of people enroll in healthcare and access Medicare and Medicaid benefits, as well as helping CMS improve the quality of Medicare and Medicaid services for beneficiaries and clinicians.\nWhat you’ll do\n\nOur ideal Senior Back End Software Engineer knows how to build large-scale production systems in modern agile environments. They write well-structured, tested, and secure code with little feedback or guidance. They’ve designed and implemented reliable and maintainable APIs and built services that integrate with external dependencies. They can articulate how the thing they've built fits into a larger ecosystem. They’re not afraid of large, complex problems. They take an active role in planning and delivery efforts, drawing on their experience to suggest better approaches or alternatives. As an Ad Hoc Back End Engineer, you’ll be:\n\n\nShipping software that impacts the lives of millions of people\n\nUsing modern programming languages and frameworks to build scalable services that gracefully integrate with legacy systems\n\nBuilding and working with APIs to support both the digital services we deliver as well as third-party usage\n\nUsing unit and integration testing to ensure systems work as intended\n\nHelping us continuously, iteratively improve\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n\n\nBackend web development experience\n\nAPI development experience\n\nExperience with relational databases\n\nExperience with automated testing\n\nExperience with version control systems like Git\n\nExperience with AWS\n\n\n\n\nVery Nice to have:\n\n\n* JavaScript/TypeScript experience - specifically Node.js and Express\n\n* Technical writing experience\n\n* Experience with structured logging (e.g. Splunk or ELK)\n\n* Experience with monitoring/analytics tools (e.g. New Relic)\n\n* Experience with standards like OAuth, OpenID\n\n* Previous experience in Government Contracting\n\n* Some DevOps experience \n\n\n\n\nNice to have:\n\n\n* Experience integrating with legacy systems\n\n* Object-relation mapper (ORM) experience\n\n* Experience with tools such as GitHub, JIRA/Confluence\n\n\n\n\nMore than that, our ideal candidate wants to contribute to work that is bigger than themselves, and wants to make a difference collaborating with their team. They care deeply about building better products, better relationships, and better trust in each interaction people have with their government. They believe in intuitive, easy-to-use government services. They collaborate well with designers, stakeholders, and other teams. They mentor and guide more junior engineers. They’re human-centered.\n\nAnd if you don’t check every box on the list? That doesn’t mean you can’t help us in our mission to deliver critical government services. Talk to us!\nSome basic requirements\n\n\n* All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.\n\nYou must be legally authorized to work in the U.S now and in the future without sponsorship.\n\nAs a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust security clearance.\n\nMinimum 7 years professional development.\n\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or another engineering background is required.\n\nOur technical screening involves completing a homework assignment that is then graded blind to remove bias. We do not do tricky, unreliable whiteboarding tests. You can read more about our homework here.\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about engineering at Ad Hoc.\nBenefits\n\n\nCompany-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance\n\nVanguard 401K Plan\n\nUse what you need PTO policy\n\nContinuing Education/Annual Conference Attendance Stipend\n\n\n\n\nAd Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.\n\nIn support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility . The range of starting pay for this role is $101,569 - $136,994 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Embedded, Testing, DevOps, Senior, Junior, Engineer and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, District of Columbia, United States

\nAppnovation helps brands thrive through innovative, people-inspired experiences and solutions. By embracing the powerful combination of technology and agility, we seamlessly integrate strategy, experience, design, development and analytics.\n\nWe create standout digital experiences by collaborating with brands to understand the individual challenges and goals for every initiative. Focusing on our clients’ customers, we effectively combine empathy, evidence and real-world insight so that solutions are derived from truth and meaning. Appnovation is an award-winning team dedicated to inspiring possibilities.\n\nTechnology is foundational to all of Appnovation’s offerings, from consulting to digital innovation, to digital product and service creation. The technology department is focused on delivering software solutions that enable rich consumer experiences, from mobile and web applications to advanced analytics and machine learning, to content and engagement management service enablement platforms.\n\nInherent throughout our tech capabilities is deep expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle, a drive for creativity, a passion for the craft, and collaboration with other disciplines - all foundational ingredients in successful digital experiences and client partnerships.\n\nThis role is based out of the Cardiff office with a lot of remote flexibility but can also be based out of our other offices which we have situated across the UK.\n\n \n\nYOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO:\n\n\nWorking within an agile and/or waterfall environment to identify any issues with product/testing requirements\n\nAssisting with preparation of all prescribed quality assurance artifacts including, but not limited to, Master Test Strategy and Plan, Functional Test Plan, etc.\n\nPreparing and participating in performance, and security testing as required\n\nConduct quality assurance defect tracking reports\n\nParticipating and/or reviewing documentation and test results in all QA test phases, such as requirements validation, unit, integration, functional, and regression testing\n\nDeveloping the QA Test Cases according to the Master Test Plan\n\nPerforming QA testing and report issues as required\n\nWalking through test cases and the test plan with the QA Lead prior to execution\n\n\n\n\n \n\nJOB SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS:\n \n\nAs an Associate Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst you will be responsible for providing QA support for a portfolio of projects, enhancements, and support initiatives. The role involves testing, planning, and working closely with the team of Developers and other QAs to ensure the product is meeting all quality standards.\n \n\nMust Haves:\n\n\n2+ years of formal testing experience\n\nUnderstanding of the quality assurance discipline, the defect lifecycle management processes, and the software commonly used for test planning and defect tracking (eg. Jira, Bugzilla, etc.)\n\nExperience in developing test plans, writing test scripts, developing use cases, implementing automated testing, executing test team activities, and assisting business users through user acceptance test processes\n\nExperience and knowledge of software quality tools (ie. test case management, project planning, defect management, automation)\n\nExperience with web/mobile application testing (browser compatibility, responsive testing, etc.)\n\nExperienced in web/mobile application technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, etc.  \n\nExperience testing in Window OS, Mac OS, Mobile OS (Android, iOS), etc.\n\nUnderstanding of user centric design principles, content, navigation, usability, behavioural analytics tagging, accessibility, SEO, localization/multi-lingual and personalization considerations\n\nUnderstanding of accessibility principles, standards, compliance, testing and validation\n\nUnderstanding of cloud computing architecture, services and platforms\n\nUnderstanding of DevOps principles, processes and tools (e.g. IaC, CI/CD and orchestration)\n\nUnderstanding of agile principles and methodologies\n\n\n\n \n\nNice to Haves: \n\n\nExperience with automated test scripting and implementation using BDD frameworks such as Behat or Cucumber\n\nExperience with testing APIs using tools such as Postman\n\nExperience with SQL and relational databases\n\nExperience with Python scripting and Pytest\n\nUnderstanding of security and privacy by design principles, process and tools\n\nUnderstanding of data driven and/or machine learning applications\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHO YOU ARE:\n\n\nProactive in raising potential risks/concerns\n\nAbility to multitask effectively on multiple projects and provide leadership\n\nAbility to identify potential risks and communicate to project leadership team\n\nFormal software testing training or certification\n\nAbility to take ownership of tasks and projects assigned with minimal supervision\n\nHighly collaborative and dynamic\n\nResults-oriented with creative problem-solving skills\n\nClient centric and responsive\n\nClear, concise, and articulate communication\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Analyst, DevOps, Cloud, Python and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nCardiff, Wales, United Kingdom