Principal Architect (Cloud, Infrastructure & Networks)

Company Description

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 (2021-2024). 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.

Job Description

Why This Role?

At SEEK, we believe infrastructure is a strategic differentiator. In this Principal Architect role, you'll drive our enterprise-wide cloud, infrastructure and networking direction—ensuring our platforms are scalable, secure, and resilient to support AI, product velocity and operational excellence.

You’ll lead SEEK’s strategic thinking in poly-cloud architecture, high-performance compute, resilient connectivity, observability, cost optimisation, and network security—partnering with Engineering, Security, Architecture and Platform teams to uplift foundational capabilities. If you're excited by large-scale challenges, federated influence, and setting the direction for modern platform engineering—this is your opportunity.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be the enterprise-wide lead for Cloud, Infrastructure & Network Architecture, and:

• Define and evolve SEEK’s cloud, infra & network strategy, patterns and guardrails
• Champion cloud-native platforms, poly-cloud approaches, and internal developer platforms
• Simplify and consolidate architecture to improve cost, resilience and scale
• Lead a small team of Solution Architects and mentor senior engineers across APAC
• Partner with Security to embed zero-trust principles and compliance at scale
• Collaborate with Product & Data teams to ensure infra supports AI, ML and emerging workloads
• Provide architectural assurance and governance for SEEK’s most critical infra initiatives
• Maintain clear blueprints, roadmaps and strategy artefacts to guide future uplift
• Enable CI/CD, observability and traffic management foundations at a global scale

The Opportunity

You’ll sit within SEEK’s Platform Architecture team—partnering across Security, Data & AI, Enterprise and Customer domains. The work you lead will enable speed and resilience for thousands of systems and millions of users across APAC.

This is a career-defining opportunity to shape foundational capabilities and architectural practice in one of the region’s most dynamic product environments.

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience in cloud, infrastructure and networking architecture
• Strong technical breadth across compute, storage, network, observability & CI/CD
• Deep expertise in poly-cloud, Kubernetes, service mesh, and cloud-native architecture
• Demonstrated leadership in large-scale, federated environments
• Strength in strategy translation—shaping roadmaps, guardrails and governance
• Confident stakeholder engagement, mentoring and influencing across senior levels
• Experience uplifting cost, security, developer experience and performance in parallel
• Bonus: Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure and advanced network design

Additional Information

At Seek We Offer:

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably and is preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and is working to minimise its environmental impacts which includes a long-term emissions reduction target of net zero by FY2050
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• Free income protection insurance

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 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.