Job description
Company Description
About SEEK
At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.
By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.
Why join us?
Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere. We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.
As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.
Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.
Job Description
About this Role
We’re building a brand-new Enterprise Automation & AI team in ETS, focused on modernising platforms, removing manual work, and driving smarter ways of working with automation and AI. We are looking for an experienced Python and DevOps Software Engineer who loves solving problems and experimenting with new tools to make a big impact.
In this role, you will help uplift SEEK’s core technology platforms with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code, build automations that streamline processes, and take engineering ownership of the AI platforms that SEEK adopts. You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders across ETS to deliver solutions that reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and enable our teams to work smarter and faster.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable, high-performance applications and automations that align with ETS objectives.
- Ensuring that systems are well-designed, tested, and fit for purpose across multiple environments.
- Owning services in production, with responsibility for uptime, troubleshooting, and operational quality.
- Driving discussions and making decisions on architecture, design, and implementation of subsystem components.
- Managing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code deployments across environments.
- Championing the use of AI tools and automation to improve developer productivity and team efficiency.
- Collaborating with colleagues across ETS to deliver consistent, high-quality engineering solutions.
- Thriving in a modern engineering environment where automation, AI, and continuous improvement are core to how we work.
Qualifications
Skills and Experience
Python Development
- Strong experience in Python, with proven ability to design and implement applications using AWS SAM (queues, APIs, DBs, object storage).
- Writes type-safe, testable, object-oriented code.
- Experience implementing SDKs and third-party integrations (e.g., Slack, AWS services, APIs).
- Familiarity with secure coding practices and mitigating common vulnerabilities.
DevOps & Platform Engineering
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code and Config-as-Code.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, plus exposure to CloudFormation, Ansible, SSM, or CDK.
- Ability to manage multi-environment deployments and support reliable services in production.
AI & Automation
- Enthusiasm for experimenting with AI tools to improve development workflows and productivity.
- Ability to champion AI and automation practices across ETS, sharing learnings and best practices.
Professional Skills:
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Effective communicator, able to collaborate across engineering, product, and operations teams.
- Comfortable working with rapidly evolving requirements and designs.
- Passion for automation and enthusiasm for using AI tools to improve productivity.
- Ability to take ownership of services in production, with a focus on reliability and quality.
- Dedication to continuous learning, and keeping up to date with automation, DevOps, and AI trends.
Additional Information
About the Team
The Enterprise Automation & AI team is a new group within ETS, created to modernise how we deliver and support technology across SEEK. Our focus is on uplifting the way ETS platforms are engineered through CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code, building automations that connect systems and reduce manual effort, and taking engineering ownership of the AI platforms that SEEK adopts. We work closely with teams across ETS to embed automation and AI into day-to-day operations, ensuring our systems are efficient, reliable, and ready to scale.
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 as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
- Tailored career development planning (including Education Assistance Program)
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don’t meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.
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 with 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.
