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VOLTA

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51 - 200 employees

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

Media • Marketing • B2B

VOLTA is a visual development studio dedicated to creating high-end 2D and 3D visuals. Since 2006 its veteran team has delivered hundreds of CGI, animation, VFX, concept art, matte painting, storyboard, and key art projects for major entertainment companies worldwide. The studio produces marketing materials and visual development assets for film, TV and related entertainment customers, working as a service provider to other businesses.

📋 Description

• Own the strategy for Volta’s platform software - the IaaS and bare-metal management stacks, the operational and analytics tooling on the data centre layer, and the build-versus-buy calls as the business scales. • Translate the product roadmap owned by the CPO into a concrete platform engineering roadmap, in strategic alignment with the CTO, and own execution against it. • Make the architectural calls that keep the platform coherent as scope and headcount grow. • Grow the platform engineering organisation from its current size toward 50-plus engineers across the US and EU, deliberately and without lowering the hiring bar. • Build the management and technical-lead layer beneath you, including hiring the Director, Platform Engineering, EMEA as your deputy. • Define team structure, ownership boundaries and the engineering practices that keep a fast-growing, distributed organisation shipping. • Lead architecture and design reviews, drive the hard technical debates, and own the boundary between the platform software and the hardware layers beneath it. • Partner with the CPO and product organisation on platform direction, without that partnership running through a reporting line. • Keep tight, well-defined boundaries with Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering and the CDO’s organisation, and embed security with Cyber Security Engineering across the SDLC. • Represent the platform in front of customers and at the executive level inside and outside Volta.

🎯 Requirements

• A track record of building and scaling a software engineering organisation at VP or equivalent level, from a small team toward 50-plus people, including org design, hiring, and a layer of managers and leads reporting into you. • Executive engineering leadership where you set direction and own outcomes across a function, not pure people-management - and you are still credible in a design review. • A clear, demonstrable understanding of what sits under the hood of a cloud service: virtualisation, storage, networking, multi-tenancy and the bare-metal layer beneath them. • Solid working knowledge of the hardware involved, enough to keep the layers coherent and to reason about where software meets the GPU, fabric and storage reality. • Experience owning and evolving existing production systems, not only greenfield builds. • The maturity to take high-level direction and turn it into strategy and execution without needing the details handed to you. • The judgment to work across organisational boundaries with peer engineering and infrastructure leaders, defining clean seams rather than fighting over them. • Comfort with full-time on-site presence in our Palo Alto office and travel as needed across a US and EU distributed organisation.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards • Comprehensive benefits • Discretionary bonus