Principal DevOps Engineer

Seek

full-time

Posted on: 10/18/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $150,000 - $175,000 per year

Lead

AWSCloudDockerGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Set and drive the long-term vision for Seek’s infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational practices, ensuring alignment with business and product strategies.
Lead the design and scaling of cloud-native architectures across Linux, AWS, and Cloudflare.
Define and enforce infrastructure as code standards using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD, ensuring consistency and resilience.
Architect advanced container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, enabling multi-tenant scaling and secure deployments.
Guide database strategy for SQL and Snowflake, driving performance, reliability, and cost optimization.
Lead the adoption of workflow orchestration platforms (Prefect) to manage critical data and compute pipelines.
Champion observability across the platform with Grafana and related tooling, ensuring proactive monitoring and high availability.
Establish incident management frameworks, driving blameless postmortems and systemic improvements.
Partner with executives, product leadership, and cross-functional teams to balance innovation with operational excellence.
Mentor and develop DevOps and engineering talent across the organization, fostering a culture of reliability and continuous learning.
Represent Seek in industry forums and technical communities, contributing to thought leadership in DevOps and cloud engineering.

9+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud infrastructure leadership roles.
Proven experience setting infrastructure strategy and guiding organizations through scaling challenges.
Expert-level knowledge of Linux, AWS, and Cloudflare for large-scale, distributed environments.
Deep expertise in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
Mastery of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
Advanced knowledge of SQL and Snowflake operations, performance tuning, and security.
Strong programming skills in Python for automation, tooling, and system integration.
Extensive experience building observability platforms with Grafana and related tools.
Demonstrated success leading incident response, reliability engineering, and SLA/SLO practices.
Track record of mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction, and collaborating at executive levels.

Benefits

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DevOpsSite Reliability Engineeringcloud infrastructureLinuxAWSCloudflareDockerKubernetesTerraformGitLab CI/CD

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