Director of Platform Engineering – Data Intelligence Platform

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Actian

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1980

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Actian is a company that offers data management and analytics platforms, enabling businesses to make confident, data-driven decisions. Their products include a cloud-native SaaS solution and a comprehensive data platform with capabilities in data management, integration, quality, analytics, and app modernization. Actian's technology supports flexible deployment options across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Their database solutions include NoSQL, RDBMS, and other database management systems ideal for diverse applications. Actian collaborates with major cloud platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, providing solutions across various industries such as financial services, healthcare, and retail. The company aims to empower organizations by simplifying how data is connected, managed, and analyzed, offering reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead and stand up a newly formed platform team; hire and grow the team • Design platform services and write infrastructure code • Own platform services supporting the data catalog, knowledge graph, and integration APIs • Deliver cloud-agnostic deployments across AWS, another public cloud, on-premises, and private-cloud environments • Own packaging, installation, upgrades, and supportability • Build and operate the internal developer platform and CI/CD with GitOps delivery • Manage security operations and compliance evidence for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR, including EU data residency • Manage cloud costs and FinOps across environments • Build infrastructure for AI and ML workloads • Own observability, reliability, incident response, and the team's on-call rotation • Design and run AI agents for infrastructure operations with guardrails, approvals, and audit trails • Review and retire replaceable tools using cost and risk analysis • Establish engineering standards, operating model, ownership boundaries, and team rituals • Report to the SVP of Engineering and collaborate with product engineering, security, customer success, and support • Deliver a high-functioning platform team, portable GitOps deployments, AI-assisted operations, scalable platform foundations, and automated compliance evidence within the first 12 months • Travel occasionally for team offsites and company-wide meetings

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, including 3+ years managing engineers • Experience building or scaling a team • AI-first mindset and extensive use of AI technology for accelerating development • Track record of shipping on-premises or self-hosted software that customers install and run in their own environments • Deep, hands-on production experience with Kubernetes • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform/Terragrunt • GitOps delivery experience with Argo CD or similar tooling • Strong AWS experience and ability to design for cloud portability • Hands-on experience operating systems under SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR controls, including data-residency requirements • Experience managing cloud costs and making cost trade-offs explicit • Clear written communication suited to a fully remote team across US and EU time zones • Nice to have: data platforms, data catalogs, or graph databases • Nice to have: Azure or Google Cloud production experience in addition to AWS • Nice to have: air-gapped or restricted-network customer deployments • Nice to have: AI/ML infrastructure, model serving, and vector or graph data stores • Nice to have: OpenTelemetry or comparable observability tooling • Nice to have: StrongDM or comparable privileged access management tooling

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package • Flexible work arrangements (remote or hybrid) • Opportunities for professional growth and development • Collaboration with a passionate and diverse team • Chance to be part of an innovative, fast-growing company making a significant impact in the data management space

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