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You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams, own critical infrastructure, and solve challenging operational and scalability problems in fast-paced, dynamic environments.\nFrom 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.\nDuties and Responsibilities:\nDesign, architect, and operate highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms across cloud and on-premises environments.\nOwn the full networking stack - CNI, service mesh, ingress, DNS, load balancing, and network policy.\nOwn database operations for production Postgres and Opensearch clusters - availability, performance, backup, and recovery.\nPartner with engineering teams to define platform and delivery standards.\nAutomate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.\nEnforce security best practices across the platform - network policies, RBAC, secrets management, and vulnerability patching.\nLead incident response and post-mortems for platform-level failures; implement systemic fixes.\nProactively identify and remediate scalability and reliability risks across the platform.\nSkills and Qualifications: \n5+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps supporting large-scale distributed systems.\n5+ years of Kubernetes experience - cluster architecture, multi-tenancy, RBAC, scheduling, and autoscaling across cloud and bare-metal. Experience with k3s is a plus.\nStrong Kubernetes networking knowledge - CNI (Calico, Cilium), service mesh (Istio, Traefik), ingress controllers, and NetworkPolicy.\nLinux networking fundamentals - TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, and network troubleshooting.\nExperience designing and operating infrastructure across hybrid environments - on-premises, edge, and multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, OCI).\nInfrastructure as code proficiency - Terraform and Ansible.\nWorking knowledge of Helm/Kustomize for application packaging and deployment.\nProficiency in Python, Go, and Bash for automation and tooling.\nPostgres experience - replication, HA/failover, connection pooling (PgBouncer), query tuning, backup/recovery, and Kubernetes operators (CloudNativePG).\nExperience operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes including Elasticsearch/Opensearch and Postgres.\nExperience operating storage solutions (CSI, Rook/Ceph).\nCloud-native observability experience - Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo.\nDemonstrated ability to deliver results on time and with high quality.\nEffective communication skills and the ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams.\nAbout the Company: \nSeekr is a leader in explainable and trustworthy artificial intelligence designed to power mission-critical decisions in enterprises, government, and regulated industries. SeekrFlow™, our end-to-end AI platform, provides secure, auditable AI solutions tailored to sectors where transparency, accuracy, and compliance are paramount. Available across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments, SeekrFlow reduces bias, strengthens data integrity, and simplifies model oversight so organizations can rely on trusted AI decisions in high-stakes settings that impact society’s most sensitive and vital systems. Trusted by leading enterprises and government agencies, we partner with defense, finance, telecom, and critical infrastructure leaders to enable AI solutions that drive real-world results with unmatched transparency and control. We are a team of strategic thinkers and problem-solvers tackling the toughest challenges facing critical infrastructure and global enterprises through best-in-class AI models and customer deployment. Our team operates with unwavering commitment to our core values and mission:\nWe are driven by outcomes-our customers' success is what we strive for every day.\nWe believe trust is earned, which is why we build explainability and transparency into the entire AI lifecycle.\nWe take our responsibility to deliver secure AI seriously.\nWe believe innovation drives progress-we are building the technologies that power the systems our society depends on.\nCompany Benefits:\nMeaningful Mission & Impact - Work with a deeply talented, collaborative team solving some of the toughest AI challenges that matter. \nEquity Ownership - RSUs that let you share directly in Seekr’s long-term success and growth.\n\nTime Off That Respects Real Life - Unlimited PTO plus 14 paid company holidays to truly recharge. \nWork Your Way - A flexible hybrid work environment with offices in Reston, VA and Austin, TX.\n\nCompetitive Total Rewards - A role-appropriate compensation structure that supports long-term growth, including base salary, bonuses, or commission plans depending on role.\n\n 401(k) with Company Match - Build your future with a retirement plan that includes employer matching. \nComprehensive Health & Wellness - Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage starting day one-for you and your family. \nParental Leave - Paid parental leave to support employees as they welcome a new child through birth, adoption, or foster placement.\n\nImportant Notice: \nTo conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.\nSeekr is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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