Senior DevOps Engineer — Kubernetes Platform | Equity & PTO

Seekr; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Ownership

Unlimited PTO

Flexible hybrid (Reston/Austin)

401(k) with company match

Health, dental, vision

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Job summary

Seekr is seeking a Platform/DevOps engineer to scale SeekrFlow across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS. You will own infrastructure, design resilient Kubernetes platforms, and drive automation. The role requires deep Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, and Opensearch experience, plus strong Linux networking.

You will collaborate with engineering teams and influence security and reliability. This fast-growing company offers meaningful mission, equity, unlimited PTO, and a flexible hybrid setup with

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of Kubernetes experience - cluster architecture, multi-tenancy, RBAC, scheduling, and autoscaling across cloud and bare-metal.
• Strong Kubernetes networking knowledge - CNI (Calico, Cilium), service mesh (Istio, Traefik), ingress controllers, and NetworkPolicy.
• Linux networking fundamentals - TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, and network troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and operate highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Own the full networking stack - CNI, service mesh, ingress, DNS, load balancing, and network policy.
• Own database operations for production Postgres and Opensearch clusters - availability, performance, backup, and recovery.
• Partner with engineering teams to define platform and delivery standards.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Enforce security best practices across the platform - network policies, RBAC, secrets management, and vulnerability patching.
• Lead incident response and post-mortems for platform-level failures; implement systemic fixes.
• Proactively identify and remediate scalability and reliability risks across the platform.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Linux networking

Terraform

Ansible

PostgreSQL / Opensearch

Python/Go/Bash

Observability: Prometheus Grafana

Security best practices

Networking: CNI

Hybrid cloud/on-prem

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

Cloud providers (AWS/Azure/OCI)

PostgreSQL

Opensearch

Elasticsearch

CSI storage (Rook/Ceph)

Job description

Seekr is seeking a Platform/DevOps engineer to scale SeekrFlow across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS. You will own infrastructure, design resilient Kubernetes platforms, and drive automation. The role requires deep Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, and Opensearch experience, plus strong Linux networking.

You will collaborate with engineering teams and influence security and reliability. This fast-growing company offers meaningful mission, equity, unlimited PTO, and a flexible hybrid setup with