Senior Platform DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes, Hybrid Cloud

Seekr; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity RSUs

Unlimited PTO

14 paid company holidays

Hybrid work environment (Reston, VA; 2

Job summary

Seekr is seeking a Platform/DevOps engineer to scale the SeekrFlow AI platform across on‑prem, cloud, and SaaS. You will own critical infrastructure, design scalable Kubernetes platforms, and partner across engineering teams to set standards and automate lifecycle management.

The role requires 5+ years in platform engineering, strong Kubernetes networking, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and fluency in Python/Go/Bash. Hybrid work is available with offices in Reston, VA and Austin, TX.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps for large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of Kubernetes experience across cloud and bare-metal, cluster architecture, RBAC, scheduling, and autoscaling.
• Strong Kubernetes networking knowledge — CNI, service mesh, ingress, DNS, NetworkPolicy.
• Infrastructure as code proficiency — Terraform and Ansible.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, and Bash for automation.
• Postgres experience — replication, HA/failover, backups in Kubernetes.
• Experience operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes including Elasticsearch/Opensearch and Postgres.

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, 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

Linux

Networking

Python

Go

Bash

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm/Kustomize

Job description

Seekr is seeking a Platform/DevOps engineer to scale the SeekrFlow AI platform across on‑prem, cloud, and SaaS. You will own critical infrastructure, design scalable Kubernetes platforms, and partner across engineering teams to set standards and automate lifecycle management.

The role requires 5+ years in platform engineering, strong Kubernetes networking, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and fluency in Python/Go/Bash. Hybrid work is available with offices in Reston, VA and Austin, TX.