Staff Platform Engineer Traffic Management

About the Team Traffic Management

As part of SEEKs Engineering Platforms group the Traffic Management team ensures secure and reliable connectivity for our engineering teams. We manage how traffic flows between the internet and our cloud environments and provide connectivity solutions for internal Traffic Management function is responsible for how all incoming and internal traffic flows through SEEKs systems - from the internet edge through to multiple Kubernetes clusters and AWS design and maintain the backbone that keeps SEEKs applications reachable secure and performant. Our work includes:

• Edge security and optimisation - using Cloudflare to cache and accelerate content block malicious attacks and manage dynamic configuration through IaC and pipelines.
• Internal traffic and service mesh management - operating Istio across Kubernetes clusters managing ingress load balancing deployment strategies service discovery and connectivity authentication and authorisation and observability enablement
• Developer experience - providing self-service capabilities with a focus on removing friction providing sensible defaults and seamlessly integrating traffic management capabilities in a way that eliminates complexity for engineering teams
• Infrastructure automation - Accelerating productivity through Infrastructure-as-Code (including Terraform) automation and observability

About the Role
Were looking for a Staff Engineer a senior technical leader with deep expertise in modern software engineering practices cloud infrastructure Kubernetes and Istio - to guide the continued evolution of SEEKs traffic management capabilities and have impact across multiple engineering this role youll shape the strategy for traffic management across SEEKs Kubernetes platform. Youll define how we route secure and monitor traffic from edge to workload while ensuring our platform delivers the stability scalability and low-friction experience that makes it the preferred choice for production technical leadership youll mentor engineers and drive how we apply mature software engineering practices to build systems that developers love and customers trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and operation of SEEKs traffic management capabilities from Cloudflare through to Kubernetes and AWS
• Architect scalable secure systems for traffic management with comprehensive network visibility
• Build tools and frameworks that streamline deployment monitoring and developer workflows
• Champion Infrastructure-as-Code practices (especially Terraform) and drive testing and automation across environments
• Partner with Engineering Security and Architecture teams to align platform roadmaps with SEEKs technical strategy
• Mentor engineers and advocate for best practices in software engineering reliability observability and scalable system design

Key Technologies

• Kubernetes (AWS EKS and Istio)
• Terraform BuildKite Helm and ArgoCD
• Datadog Splunk and PagerDuty
• AWS services (Route53 IAM load balancers S3 Lambda etc)
• Cloudflare

Qualifications :

Youll Bring

• Platform engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems at enterprise scale
• Kubernetes expertise including architecture high-availability clusters and ecosystem tools including Istio
• Software engineering skills for building automation tooling platform components and self-service developer tools including Kubernetes operators
• Technical leadership experience driving architectural decisions and strategy across multi-team platforms
• Infrastructure-as-Code mastery with Terraform Helm GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design
• Excellent communication skills with a genuine preference for collaborative work - someone who thrives on frequent interaction with engineers architects and business stakeholders
• An innovative mindset and developer-first approach always seeking opportunities to enhance systems processes and engineer experience across SEEKs cloud and platform environments

Bonus Skills

• Contributions to Kubernetes Istio or related CNCF projects
• Experience running or managing multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters at scale
• Relevant certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar

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 :

Full-time