Staff Platform Engineer

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK's portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK's purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

Job Description

About the Team – Traffic Management

As part of SEEK's 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 applications.The Traffic Management function is responsible for how all incoming and internal traffic flows through SEEK's systems - from the internet edge through to multiple Kubernetes clusters and AWS services.We design and maintain the backbone that keeps SEEK's 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

We're 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 SEEK's traffic management capabilities and have impact across multiple engineering teams.In this role, you'll shape the strategy for traffic management across SEEK's Kubernetes platform. You'll 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 workloads.Beyond technical leadership, you'll 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 SEEK's 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 SEEK's 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

You'll 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 SEEK's 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 don't 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.