Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS/EKS, Istio, CI/CD

News Corporation; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, dental, and vision

Flexible Time Off

13 Paid Holidays

401(k) with company match (3.5%)

Tuition Reimbursement programs

Office snacks and refreshments

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking a Sr DevOps Engineer in Austin to advance our CI/CD platform. You will architect and manage CircleCI pipelines, EKS clusters, and GitOps workflows across multi‑region environments.

You’ll collaborate with engineering squads to provide tooling, implement Istio service mesh, and enforce security policies using IRSA and network policies. This role offers hands-on cloud engineering in a fast‑growing real estate tech company.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or DevOps platform experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, IAM).
• 2+ years of production experience with EKS and containerized workloads.
• 1+ years of Istio service mesh in distributed/multi-cluster environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage robust CircleCI pipelines, runner clusters, and self-service automation tools for secure cloud delivery.
• Deploy GitOps workflows across clusters using ArgoCD for automated lifecycle management.
• Partner with engineering teams to provide tooling and automated pipelines for success.
• Design and manage production-ready AWS EKS infrastructure in multi-region, multi-cluster setups.
• Manage container scheduling and cluster scaling with Karpenter to ensure security and availability.
• Enforce security for EKS via Kubernetes Network Policies and IRSA.
• Architect Istio Service Meshs to regulate traffic and implement mTLS between microservices.
• Develop routing, ingress/egress gateways, and canary/releases strategies.
• Mentor teams on DevOps best practices to scale architecture.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues in service mesh data planes and distributed systems.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS EKS

Kubernetes

Istio

CI/CD automation

Tools

CircleCI

Kubernetes

Job description

Realtor.com is seeking a Sr DevOps Engineer in Austin to advance our CI/CD platform. You will architect and manage CircleCI pipelines, EKS clusters, and GitOps workflows across multi‑region environments.

You’ll collaborate with engineering squads to provide tooling, implement Istio service mesh, and enforce security policies using IRSA and network policies. This role offers hands-on cloud engineering in a fast‑growing real estate tech company.