{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"cad2a6ee34313cd3bab313f6","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/cad2a6ee34313cd3bab313f6","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/cad2a6ee34313cd3bab313f6","title":"Sr. Software Engineer - DevOps","description":"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.\nJoin 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.\nWe are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our CI/CD Platform team. This is a high-impact opportunity to help design, build, and support the shared delivery and infrastructure capabilities that enable engineering teams across Realtor.com® to build, test, deploy, and operate software quickly, reliably, and securely.\n\nYou will contribute to the next generation of our CI/CD platform and cloud-native runtime environment. Your work will include automated delivery workflows, GitOps, AWS EKS, Kubernetes security, service mesh capabilities, and developer-focused tooling. You will partner closely with engineering teams to reduce delivery friction, improve reliability, and help establish practical DevOps standards across the organization.\n\nWe believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to use AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development, generate boilerplate, investigate complex issues, and improve documentation. You will also apply sound judgment to verify AI-generated output for security, performance, reliability, and accuracy.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nCI/CD Platform & Delivery Engineering\nArchitect and manage CircleCI pipelines, runner infrastructure, and self-service automation that support secure application delivery.\nBuild and improve shared CI/CD capabilities that help engineering teams deliver software accurately, reliably, and with speed.\nDeploy GitOps workflows across multiple clusters using ArgoCD to automate application lifecycle management across environments.\nPartner with engineering teams to provide technical guidance, automated pipelines, reusable templates, and platform tooling.\nAWS & Kubernetes Platform Operations\nDesign and manage production-ready AWS EKS infrastructure within resilient multi-region and multi-cluster architectures.\nManage container scheduling and cluster scaling using Karpenter and related Kubernetes capabilities.\nMaintain the health, availability, security, and operational readiness of EKS environments.\nDiagnose and resolve issues involving Kubernetes workloads, networking, deployments, and distributed systems.\nService Mesh, Security & Reliability\nSupport Istio service mesh implementations that regulate traffic, enable mTLS, and protect communication between microservices.\nDevelop and maintain routing, ingress and egress gateway, circuit-breaking, and canary-release patterns.\nEnforce Kubernetes security practices using Network Policies, IAM Roles for Service Accounts, and related controls.\nIncorporate security, resilience, performance, observability, and cost-efficiency into platform initiatives.\nMentor engineering teams on DevOps practices and contribute to operational maturity across the organization.\nWhat you'll bring\n\nExperience & Expertise\n6+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps.\n3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, VPC, Route 53, S3, and IAM.\n2+ years of experience administering production-grade Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.\n1+ year of production experience designing and managing Istio Service Mesh in highly distributed or multi-cluster environments.\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and Kubernetes-based platform capabilities.\nTechnical Skills\nCloud and infrastructure: AWS, Amazon EKS, EC2, VPC, Route 53, S3, IAM, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.\nCI/CD and GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, runner infrastructure, deployment automation, and release strategies.\nKubernetes operations: Karpenter or comparable autoscaling approaches, IRSA, Network Policies, and multi-cluster operations.\nService mesh and reliability: Istio or a comparable service mesh, mTLS, traffic routing, canary releases, observability, and distributed-systems troubleshooting.\nAutomation: Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code, Python, Go, Bash, and platform scripting.\nPreferred Qualifications\nProduction experience with CircleCI.\nCertifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.\nExperience with Google Cloud Platform or GKE.\nProfessional Qualities\nStrong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.\nCollaborative approach working across engineering teams to improve shared systems and delivery practices.\nSelf-motivated and comfortable solving complex platform problems with a high degree of ownership.\nPragmatic, systems-oriented mindset with strong judgment around reliability, security, performance, and developer experience.\nHow We Work:\nWe balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.\nHow We Reward You:\nRealtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:\nInclusive and competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage\nFamily forming benefits\n13 Paid Holidays\nFlexible Time Off\n8 hours of paid Volunteer Time Off\nImmediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match\nTuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs\n1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions\nStudent Debt Retirement Savings Match program\nFree snacks and refreshments in each office location\n\nDo the best work of your life at Realtor.com®\nHere, 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.\nDiversity 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. 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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.\nJoin 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.\nWe are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our CI/CD Platform team. This is a high-impact opportunity to help design, build, and support the shared delivery and infrastructure capabilities that enable engineering teams across Realtor.com® to build, test, deploy, and operate software quickly, reliably, and securely.\n\nYou will contribute to the next generation of our CI/CD platform and cloud-native runtime environment. Your work will include automated delivery workflows, GitOps, AWS EKS, Kubernetes security, service mesh capabilities, and developer-focused tooling. You will partner closely with engineering teams to reduce delivery friction, improve reliability, and help establish practical DevOps standards across the organization.\n\nWe believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to use AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development, generate boilerplate, investigate complex issues, and improve documentation. You will also apply sound judgment to verify AI-generated output for security, performance, reliability, and accuracy.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nCI/CD Platform & Delivery Engineering\nArchitect and manage CircleCI pipelines, runner infrastructure, and self-service automation that support secure application delivery.\nBuild and improve shared CI/CD capabilities that help engineering teams deliver software accurately, reliably, and with speed.\nDeploy GitOps workflows across multiple clusters using ArgoCD to automate application lifecycle management across environments.\nPartner with engineering teams to provide technical guidance, automated pipelines, reusable templates, and platform tooling.\nAWS & Kubernetes Platform Operations\nDesign and manage production-ready AWS EKS infrastructure within resilient multi-region and multi-cluster architectures.\nManage container scheduling and cluster scaling using Karpenter and related Kubernetes capabilities.\nMaintain the health, availability, security, and operational readiness of EKS environments.\nDiagnose and resolve issues involving Kubernetes workloads, networking, deployments, and distributed systems.\nService Mesh, Security & Reliability\nSupport Istio service mesh implementations that regulate traffic, enable mTLS, and protect communication between microservices.\nDevelop and maintain routing, ingress and egress gateway, circuit-breaking, and canary-release patterns.\nEnforce Kubernetes security practices using Network Policies, IAM Roles for Service Accounts, and related controls.\nIncorporate security, resilience, performance, observability, and cost-efficiency into platform initiatives.\nMentor engineering teams on DevOps practices and contribute to operational maturity across the organization.\nWhat you'll bring\n\nExperience & Expertise\n6+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps.\n3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, VPC, Route 53, S3, and IAM.\n2+ years of experience administering production-grade Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.\n1+ year of production experience designing and managing Istio Service Mesh in highly distributed or multi-cluster environments.\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and Kubernetes-based platform capabilities.\nTechnical Skills\nCloud and infrastructure: AWS, Amazon EKS, EC2, VPC, Route 53, S3, IAM, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.\nCI/CD and GitOps: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows, runner infrastructure, deployment automation, and release strategies.\nKubernetes operations: Karpenter or comparable autoscaling approaches, IRSA, Network Policies, and multi-cluster operations.\nService mesh and reliability: Istio or a comparable service mesh, mTLS, traffic routing, canary releases, observability, and distributed-systems troubleshooting.\nAutomation: Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code, Python, Go, Bash, and platform scripting.\nPreferred Qualifications\nProduction experience with CircleCI.\nCertifications such as CKA, CKS, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.\nExperience with Google Cloud Platform or GKE.\nProfessional Qualities\nStrong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.\nCollaborative approach working across engineering teams to improve shared systems and delivery practices.\nSelf-motivated and comfortable solving complex platform problems with a high degree of ownership.\nPragmatic, systems-oriented mindset with strong judgment around reliability, security, performance, and developer experience.\nHow We Work:\nWe balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.\nHow We Reward You:\nRealtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:\nInclusive and competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage\nFamily forming benefits\n13 Paid Holidays\nFlexible Time Off\n8 hours of paid Volunteer Time Off\nImmediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match\nTuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs\n1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions\nStudent Debt Retirement Savings Match program\nFree snacks and refreshments in each office location\n\nDo the best work of your life at Realtor.com®\nHere, 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.\nDiversity 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. 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