Director of Platform Engineering – Data Intelligence Platform

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🌐 United Kingdom, United States, +3 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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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

• Stand up and lead a newly formed platform team • Hire and grow platform engineers, establish the operating model, and set team standards and rituals • Design platform services and write infrastructure code • Own infrastructure behind the data catalog, knowledge graph, and integration APIs • Deliver cloud-agnostic deployments across AWS, another public cloud, customer on-premises, and private-cloud environments • Own packaging, installation, upgrades, and supportability • Own the internal developer platform and CI/CD with GitOps delivery • Partner with security on security operations and compliance evidence for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR • 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 and audit trails • Review and retire tools replaceable by AI agents or simpler automation • Report to the SVP of Engineering and collaborate with product engineering, security, customer success, and support • Deliver a high-functioning platform team, portable deployments, AI-assisted operations, scalable platform foundations, and automated compliance evidence within the first 12 months

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, including 3+ years managing engineers • Experience building or scaling a team • AI-first mindset, making extensive use of AI technology for accelerating developments • Track record of shipping on-premises or self-hosted software that customers install and run in their own environments • Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production • 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 • Experience with Azure or Google Cloud in addition to AWS • Experience with air-gapped or restricted-network customer deployments • Experience building infrastructure for AI and ML workloads, including model serving and vector or graph data stores • Observability with OpenTelemetry or comparable tooling • Privileged access management with StrongDM or comparable tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package • Flexible work arrangements (remote or hybrid) • Opportunities for professional growth and development • Occasional travel for team offsites and company-wide meetings

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