About the Opportunity:
We are seeking an Infrastructure Manager with deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible to help scale Seekr’s AI platform across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. You’ll be highly hands-on, juggling multiple projects, mentoring engineers, and driving complex initiatives to deliver robust, scalable, and reliable systems. On-prem experience is highly preferred.
This role demands a strong foundation in Linux, networking (both traditional and Kubernetes), container technologies, and automation. You’ll collaborate closely with software engineering teams, own critical infrastructure, and solve challenging operational and scalability problems in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
From your first day, you will make a valuable — and valued — contribution. We are a fast-growing company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of consumers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead development of solutions to complex reliability, performance, and scaling challenges.
- Design, architect, and implement systems, networks, and services powering Seekr’s platform.
- Provide hands-on leadership and mentorship to the team.
- Partner with software engineering teams to build scalable, efficient, and reliable services.
- Identify and resolve operational inefficiencies through automation.
- Troubleshoot and lead response to deployment and production incidents.
- Implement and enforce security best practices, ensuring infrastructure, deployments, and data are protected at every stage.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Technical Leadership: 12+ years experience, Proven ability to deliver results in a high-pressure/dynamic environment, Communication Skills, Roadmap & long-term strategy, mentoring senior engineers.
- Kubernetes & Distributed Systems: Enterprise-scale K8s with custom operators/controllers, multi-platform clusters, hybrid fleet orchestration across cloud & edge, K8s control plane, k8s upgrades, Docker, containerd, CRI-O, Ingress Controllers (Istio, NGINIX, Traefik), K8s Databases, Helm charts.
- Database Management: Postgres, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Kubernetes databases, Stateful sets.
- Networking: L2/L3 protocols (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, IPSec), VPNs, firewalls, redundancy paths, bare-metal Linux networking, CoreDNS, Calico, K8s service mesh (Istio).
- Infrastructure Automation: Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines, GitLab, ArgoCD, MAAS, scripting (Python, Golang, Bash), AWS, Azure.
- Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, ELK, OTEL.
- Security: Zero-trust architecture, PKI, mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE, certificate automation, CVE remediation, secrets management, IAM.
- Incident Management & RCA: End-to-end incident lifecycle, root cause analysis, corrective action ownership.
About the Company:
- We are driven by outcomes—our customers' success is what we strive for every day.
- We believe trust is earned, which is why we build explainability and transparency into the entire AI lifecycle.
- We take our responsibility to deliver secure AI seriously.
- We believe innovation drives progress—we are building the technologies that power the systems our society depends on.
Company Benefits:
- Meaningful Mission & Impact - Work with a deeply talented, collaborative team solving some of the toughest AI challenges that matter.
- Equity Ownership – RSUs that let you share directly in Seekr’s long‑term success and growth.
- Time Off That Respects Real Life – Unlimited PTO plus 14 paid company holidays to truly recharge.
- Work Your Way – A flexible hybrid work environment with offices in Reston, VA and Austin, TX.
- Competitive Total Rewards – A role‑appropriate compensation structure that supports long‑term growth, including base salary, bonuses, or commission plans depending on role.
- 401(k) with Company Match – Build your future with a retirement plan that includes employer matching.
- Comprehensive Health & Wellness – Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage starting day one—for you and your family.
- Parental Leave – Paid parental leave to support employees as they welcome a new child through birth, adoption, or foster placement.
Skills Required
- 12+ years experience in technical leadership and delivering results in dynamic environments
- Enterprise Kubernetes experience including operators/controllers, multi-cluster and control plane management
- Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Ansible for configuration management and automation
- Strong Linux and bare-metal networking experience
- Container technologies: Docker, containerd, CRI-O, Helm
- Ingress/service mesh experience: Istio, NGINX, Traefik
- Database management experience: Postgres, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and Kubernetes stateful sets
- Networking protocols and tooling: BGP, OSPF, VLANs, IPSec, VPNs, firewalls
- Infrastructure automation and CI/CD: GitLab, ArgoCD, MAAS, pipeline automation
- Scripting and programming: Python, Golang, Bash
- Cloud experience: AWS and Azure
- Observability tooling: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, ELK, OpenTelemetry
- Security practices: zero-trust, PKI, mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE, certificate automation, CVE remediation, secrets management, IAM
- Incident management and RCA ownership across deployment and production incidents
- On-premises deployment experience
What We Do
Seekr Technologies Inc. (“Seekr”) is an Artificial General Intelligence company that develops and offers ethical AI solutions, employing large language models to identify, evaluate, summarize, and generate reliable content at scale. Leveraging its proprietary Principle-Aligned AI technology, vast language and vision models, and an independent web-scale search engine, Seekr enables users to build, manage, and deploy grounded, trustworthy, and transparent LLMs, empowering users to discover, create, and trust a world of content
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