Sr. Software Engineer - DevOps
Realtor.com · Austin, Texas, United States ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Devops
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Company size
- 501-1000
Realtor.com · Austin, Texas, United States ·
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Senior DevOps engineer builds and scales CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, and service-mesh platforms at a top real-estate site, using AWS EKS, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Istio, and Karpenter to improve developer workflows and reliability.
Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
We are looking for a highly competent and highly motivated individual with automation experience in AWS and Kubernetes, to be part of our CICD platform team to help lead the design, implementation, and adoption of the technical building blocks that power our engineering organization’s next-generation of CI/CD.
Our CICD platform team is responsible for paving the infrastructure path enabling our entire engineering organization to build features quickly and reliably across our organization.
Our focus is on building and supporting the automated solutions engineers will use for all of their CI/CD needs.
We build and manage capabilities to ensure Realtor.com’s applications are delivered accurately, reliably, and with speed.
We use both open-source and vendor-based technologies to provide developers with the best possible CI/CD platforms and services.
Duties and Responsibilities
Architect and manage robust CircleCI pipelines, runner clusters, and self-service automation tools to streamline secure application delivery within cloud environments.
Deploy GitOps workflows across multiple clusters (utilizing ArgoCD) to automate the management of application lifecycles in diverse environments.
Partner with engineering squads to provide necessary tooling, automated pipelines, and technical expertise required for their success.
Design and manage production-ready AWS EKS infrastructure within a resilient, multi-region and multi-cluster architecture.
Manage intricate container scheduling and cluster scaling via Karpenter, ensuring the security, health, and availability of EKS environments.
Enforce rigorous security for EKS using Kubernetes Network Policies and IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).
Architect and oversee Istio Service Mesh implementations to regulate traffic, implement mTLS, and protect communications between microservices.
Develop advanced routing, ingress/egress gateways, and traffic strategies such as circuit breaking and canary releases.
Mentor and evangelize DevOps best practices to engineering teams to improve maturity and scale our technical architecture.
Diagnose and fix sophisticated challenges in service mesh data planes, multi-cluster deployments, and distributed systems operations.
Integrate security, resilience, performance, and cost-efficiency as core pillars within every project and engineering initiative.
Education, Skills and Experience
6+ years of strong cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or DevOps platform experience.
3+ years of dedicated hands-on experience working with AWS services (EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, IAM).
2+ years of expert-level experience administrating production-grade Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.
1+ years of production experience designing and managing Istio Service Mesh in highly distributed or multi-cluster environments.
Nice to have:
Have experience with CircleCI.
Hold certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
Have hands-on experience or familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE.
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.
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