Software Eng, Sr Staff - DevOps

News Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

News Corporation is looking for a Cloud Engineering and DevOps expert with extensive experience in managing AWS EKS environments and CI/CD platforms. This role involves architecting robust pipelines, designing scalable infrastructure, and mentoring engineering squads on best practices.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Kubernetes, AWS services, and container orchestration, with a proven track record of enhancing delivery excellence across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or DevOps platform experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, and IAM.
• 2+ years of expert-level experience administering production-grade Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage CircleCI pipelines and automation tools.
• Design and manage AWS EKS infrastructure across multi-region architectures.
• Support Istio Service Mesh implementations and troubleshoot service mesh issues.

Skills

CI/CD & GitOps

AWS

Kubernetes

Containerization

Tools

CircleCI

ArgoCD

Amazon EKS

Job description

What you’ll do:

CI/CD Platform & Delivery Excellence

• Architect and manage robust CircleCI pipelines, runner clusters, and self‑service automation tools to streamline secure application delivery in cloud environments.
• Deploy and evolve GitOps workflows across multiple clusters using ArgoCD to automate application lifecycle management across environments.
• Partner with engineering squads to provide the tooling, automated pipelines, and technical expertise needed for successful delivery.

Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes

• Design and manage production‑ready AWS EKS infrastructure across resilient multi‑region and multi‑cluster architectures.
• Manage container scheduling and cluster scaling using Karpenter, ensuring secure, healthy, and highly available EKS environments.
• Enforce strong Kubernetes security practices through Network Policies and IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).

Service Mesh, Reliability & Engineering Standards

• Architect and support Istio Service Mesh implementations to regulate traffic, enforce mTLS, and protect service‑to‑service communication.
• Develop advanced routing, ingress and egress gateway patterns, and traffic strategies such as circuit breaking and canary releases.
• Diagnose and resolve sophisticated issues across service mesh data planes, multi‑cluster deployments, and distributed systems operations.
• Mentor engineering teams on DevOps best practices and help raise the maturity of our platform and delivery architecture.
• Embed security, resilience, performance, and cost‑efficiency as core considerations in every initiative.

What you’ll bring:

Experience & Expertise

• 6+ years of cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or DevOps platform experience.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, and IAM.
• 2+ years of expert‑level experience administering production‑grade Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.
• 1+ year of production experience designing and managing Istio Service Mesh in distributed or multi‑cluster environments.

Technical Skills

• CI/CD & GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, and self‑service platform automation.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, multi‑cluster environments, and cluster scaling.
• Security & Reliability: Kubernetes Network Policies, IRSA, mTLS, traffic management, and distributed systems troubleshooting.
• Platform Engineering: Experience building tooling and paved‑path solutions that enable engineering teams to move faster and more safely.

Nice to Have

• Experience with CircleCI.
• Certifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Hands‑on experience or familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE.
• Manage container scheduling and cluster scaling, to ensure secure, healthy, and highly available EKS environments.
• Mentor engineering teams on DevOps best practices and help raise the maturity of our platform and delivery architecture.

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading‑edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.