Staff Engineer - Cloud Platforms
Staff Engineer - Cloud Platforms
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Job Description
About the team:
Part of SEEKs Engineering Platforms group the WorkloadHosting team is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that powers application workloads across our cloud platforms. We enable internal teams to deploy scale and operate services reliably and securely with minimal friction.
Our mission is to provide a resilient automated and developerfriendly hosting environment that supports both legacy and modern workloads. Our team embraces Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) cloudnative tooling and automation to minimize toil and accelerate delivery.
About the Role:
Part of SEEKs Engineering Platforms group we are looking for a highly experienced Staff Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our Kubernetesbased platform infrastructure. This role requires deep technical expertise in Kubernetes internals a strong foundation in software engineering best practices and a passion for mentoring junior engineers. You will help shape our platform strategy build tools and frameworks that improve developer experience and ensure our systems are secure reliable and scalable.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the architecture development and optimization of internal platform services built on Kubernetes.
Provide subject matter expertise on Kubernetes internals including the control plane networking scheduling and extensibility via CRDs and operators.
Build tools and frameworks to improve deployment monitoring security and developer workflows.
Drive adoption of modern infrastructure and software engineering best practices across the platform team and broader engineering org.
Mentor and support junior engineers particularly in Kubernetes usage platform reliability and scalable system design.
Partner closely with the Engineering Manager and Principal Staff Engineer to define and implement platform roadmaps.
Ensure high availability security and performance of platform services through automation observability and testing.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of our Kubernetesbased infrastructure.
Influence and lead technical decisions within the team and across the organization.
Bring an innovation and improvement mindsetcontinuously seeking ways to enhance platform capabilities developer experience and operational efficiency.
Key Technologies:
Kubernetes (including deep knowledge of internals)
AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
BuildKite (CI/CD)
Datadog Prometheus (observability)
PagerDuty (incident management)
Qualifications :
- Excellent experience in infrastructure platform engineering or DevOps with demonstrated leadership in largescale systems.
- Indepth expertise in Kubernetes architecture and ecosystem.
- Strong programming and scripting skills particularly in Go or Bash.
- Experience building platform components such as Kubernetes operators admission controllers or internal developer platforms.
- Proven ability to lead and influence infrastructure and architectural decisions at scale.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines GitOps workflows and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform Helm).
- Exceptional problemsolving skills and the ability to influence and lead technical decisions within the team and across the organization.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- A strong innovation and improvement mindset with a drive to continuously enhance systems processes and developer experience.
Nice to have:
Contributions to Kubernetes or Kubernetesrelated open source projects.
Experience managing multitenant Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar certifications.
Additional Information :
Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:
- Annual Performance Bonus Plan
- Support of flexible working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
- Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
At SEEK we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences especially as they relate to gender sexual identity culture faith disability and life stages. If you have the skills curiosity and an adaptable mindset but dont meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
