Director of Platform Engineering [gn] Data Intelligence Platform

12 hours, 14 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Software Development
Actian

Actian

Actian Corp provides data management solutions for organizations to make confident, data-driven decisions and accelerate growth through hybrid data management, integration, and analytics services worldwide.

IT Services
201-500
Founded 2005

Description

  • Build, lead, hire, and develop a newly formed platform engineering team and its operating model.
  • Design and implement platform services supporting the data catalog, knowledge graph, and customer integration APIs.
  • Deliver cloud-agnostic platform deployments across AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, and customer private-cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Own packaging, installation, upgrades, supportability, and GitOps-based CI/CD delivery.
  • Build and operate infrastructure for AI and ML workloads, including reliable compute, data, and access patterns.
  • Design and run AI agents for operational triage, remediation, change validation, and reporting with appropriate guardrails and audit trails.
  • Lead security operations, compliance automation, and audit evidence collection for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and EU data residency.
  • Own observability, reliability, incident response, on-call operations, cloud cost management, and FinOps.
  • Set platform engineering standards and collaborate with product engineering, security, customer success, and support teams.
  • Assess and retire tooling that can be replaced by AI agents or simpler automation.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE.
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience, including building or scaling a team.
  • AI-first approach and extensive use of AI to accelerate engineering and operations work.
  • Track record of shipping on-premises or self-hosted software for customer-managed environments.
  • Deep production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, and GitOps delivery using Argo CD or similar tools.
  • Strong AWS experience and ability to design portable, multi-cloud architecture.
  • Hands-on experience operating systems under SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and data-residency controls.
  • Experience managing cloud costs and communicating cost trade-offs to engineering and business leaders.
  • Clear written communication for a fully remote US- and EU-based team.
  • Ability to work remotely from the US, UK, Spain, France, or Germany with at least four hours of daily overlap with US Eastern and Central European time zones; occasional travel is required.
  • Experience with data platforms, data catalogs, or graph databases (preferred).
  • Production experience with Azure or Google Cloud, air-gapped deployments, AI/ML infrastructure, OpenTelemetry, or StrongDM (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Flexible remote or hybrid work arrangements.
  • Fully remote role available in the US, UK, Spain, France, or Germany.
  • Professional growth and development opportunities.
  • Collaboration with a diverse global team.
  • Occasional team offsites and company-wide meetings.

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