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Form of workAbout 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 Place to
Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). 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 DescriptionThe Team - Engineering Platforms - Run
We connect SEEK’s customers to our services while providing the cloud infrastructure on which to host these services. We also provide the observability and monitoring services that our teams need to assure the availability, performance, reliability, and security of the services they run.
Our focus is to enable our customers to run software reliably, safely and with ease as well as to provide SEEK with a world-class engineering platform and expertise, enabling the business to move with confidence and agility.
Reporting to the Head of Engineering, this Senior Staff Engineer is responsible for leading the building and running of Automat, SEEK’s internal developer platform, based on Kubernetes.
This platform is increasingly responsible for serving the traffic that powers SEEK’s employment marketplace websites; it routes traffic and serves containerised workloads and emits telemetry data to give SEEK’s engineers access to the observability tools they need to ensure their systems are behaving as desired.
In turn our teams must ensure that we’re providing a platform capable of providing these behaviours, while enabling SEEK’s engineers to work productively and efficiently. The engineer in this role will work with many engineering stakeholders around the company across multiple time zones, as well as business analysts and members of the leadership team.
The role of a Senior Staff Engineer could include the following:
• Ensure the services /systems/platforms within your sub-domain are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current SEEK development practices
• Help guide other Engineers to drive platform health in their teams by ensuring that our systems are aligned to SEEK’s technical metrics
- Deep dive on technical issues within your peer managers' teams as the need arises
- Uplift and embed technical best practices across Engineering teams within your subdomain
• Strengthen engineering discipline and technology capability across sub-domain
• Partner with technical stakeholders including Architecture, Security, and other technical teams.
• Grow Staff Engineer technical leadership capabilities through coaching, mentor and example behaviour
QualificationsDeep understanding of Kubernetes
Worked in complex technology environments in consulting or marketplace
Worked across Engineering functions to consult on best practice
Mentored and helped technical staff to uplift capability
Proactively shares knowledge and skills to help other team members grow through coaching and mentoring
Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:
- 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
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
- Free income protection insurance
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.
