Staff Engineer - Cloud Enablement

About 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 Places to work in technology for the fourth 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.

About the role  

The Cloud Enablement team are super excited to announce we are SEEKing a Staff Engineer with strong Technical Leadership skills to help drive the future direction. This role will focus on the design and delivery of fit for use products.  

A Staff Engineer is a technical specialist role and senior member of the Cloud Enablement team within SEEK’s Enterprise Technology Group. A Staff Engineer is a sub-domain subject matter expert, whose primary focus is to partner closely with Engineers, Engineering Managers, Heads of Engineering, Architecture, and Heads of Product to drive the best practices for Cloud usage at SEEK and direction for the Cloud Enablement team. 

Day-to-day, you will work collaboratively with members of our team, creating roadmaps, resolving technical challenges and setting the technical direction, as well different stakeholder across multiple teams in which you work and support the resolution of technical issues and decisions as the need arises.  

A Staff Engineer advocates for, and empowers, technical best practices which support the usage of Cloud across multiple teams or technology specialisations. You will be accountable for advocating clean, scalable solutions, ensuring high development practices and standards. 

You will have opportunities to help shape broader patterns and practices through the tools and platforms we design and implement across SEEK, there are also opportunities  to do hands-on coding. You will drive the alignment of your team’s technical roadmap to SEEK’s overall technical strategy. You will also provide people leadership through mentoring, developing and may also line manage other engineers. 

About the team 

So, what is Cloud Enablement? 
The Cloud Enablement team’s role is to provide a stable, secure and optimised cloud for all SEEKers enabling engineering teams to use cloud technology by providing services and prescriptive guidance that promotes agile, autonomous delivery and supports business transformation. The team is split into a FinOps, Engineering and database support squads 

Why is this important to SEEK? 

• Improve efficiencies – Solving problems once for all to benefit 

• Create value – Enabling our developers and engineers to spend more time doing the things they love and are good at, as opposed to just deploying infrastructure 

• Manage risk/security – Operating within the guardrails Always Safe Always On 

Responsibilities  

Build 

• Ensure the services /systems / platforms within your sub-domain are fit for purpose, well architected, have roadmaps and follow current SEEK development practices 

• Deep dive on technical issues within team and across SEEK as the need arises 

• Drive automation and orchestration efforts to optimise cloud operations and reduce manual intervention. 

• Uplift and embed Cloud technical best practices across Engineering teams 

• Drive platform health by ensuring that our systems are aligned to SEEK’s technical metrics 

• Uplift and embed technical practices in Cloud Enablement leading a DevOps Culture 

• Be a technical escalation person who owns and addresses production incidents through to resolution 

Execute 

• Be the key point of contact for how other sub-domains interface with your area’s systems/tools/platforms and technical solutions 

• Build strong relationships with technical stakeholders including Architecture, Security and other technical teams 

• Effectively facilitate, influence and negotiate technical discussions for SEEK wide Cloud initiatives 

• Support the Head of Cloud Enablement in Capacity Planning, Risk management, scoping, and prioritisation of technical work 

• Strengthen engineering discipline and technology capability across sub-domain 

• Provide technical guidance and break through blockers in technical matters and decisions 

• Uplift and align security practices across multiple teams. Collaborates with Security to ensure alignment of best practice across their Sub-Domain. 

• Advocate writing clean, well-tested, readable software, using secure coding practices, current patterns and tooling as required 

• Consider customer outcomes and how your systems/software/platforms across your sub-domain connect to their needs 

Support 

• Provide guidance to make it easier for teams to use cloud technology, supporting faster, more independent delivery and business transformation 

• Help guide Engineers to drive platform health in their teams by ensuring that our systems are aligned to SEEK’s technical metrics 

• Strengthen the technical capabilities of your sub-domain by proactively identifying and nurturing engineering talents and future technical leader 

• Grow Engineer technical leadership capabilities through coaching, mentor and example behaviour 

• Support the wellbeing of the team by fostering a culture of safety, inclusivity, diversity and engagement 

• Act as a SEEK engineering ambassador and help attract technical talent 

Strengthen 

• Key contributor to the engineering community at SEEK (e.g.: Open-source projects, Mentoring, Guilds)  

• Develop a profile within the external engineering community (e.g.: Conference coordination, meet-up management)  

• Proactively seek out learning opportunities for self and others through inviting and providing regular feedback  

• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders (e.g., Engineering Managers, Architects and Product Managers) 

• Experience with architecting and designing Cloud Solutions (preferably AWS) 

• Experience creating product roadmaps/strategies 

• Experience with Finops and cloud cost optimisation  

• Experience with creating/driving automation and orchestration 

• Prior responsibility for the development & maintenance of a service / system / platform’s health in accordance with key technical metrics 

• Ability to effectively influence and negotiate with others, including senior stakeholders 

• Experience collaborating with technical leaders and the wider technical community to assess and implement new methodologies and technologies 

• Experience identifying and connecting Platform Teams with technical growth opportunities 

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus. 

• Ability to operate in a team with geographically distributed team members  

• Prior experience in one of the following technology roles would be considered essential: Cloud Platform Operations/Engineering, Software or Infrastructure architecture 

• Demonstrated ability to champion and influence design decisions and adoption across an enterprise 

Permanent Perks

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• 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

Here at SEEK we pride ourselves on harbouring a flexible and inclusive working environment. 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.