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Manager, AI Infrastructure

SeekrAustin🇺🇸United States

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SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationAustin, United States
DockerGitAWSELKService MeshAnsibleArgoCDBashComplianceGoGrafanaHelmIstioPKIPrometheusPythonRoot Cause AnalysisTerraformTraefikAzureKubernetesCI/CDLinuxIAM

Job description

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.

This range reflects Seekr’s good faith estimate of what it expects to pay for this role at the time of posting. Placement within the range depends on a number of factors, including but not limited to geographic location, applicable labor categories under Seekr’s federal government contracts, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education, and certifications. This role may also be eligible for annual bonus, equity, other other incentive compensation.

The proposed salary range for this position is:
$160,000—$235,000 USD

About the Company:

Seekr 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:
  • 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.

Important Notice:
To 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.
Seekr is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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