Platform Engineering Director: AI-Driven Cloud Platform

Actian; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Actian seeks a platform leader to head a dedicated team responsible for deploying, operating, and auditing the Data Intelligence Platform across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments.

You will design cloud-agnostic deployments using Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps, and own platform services including the data catalog and knowledge graph. This senior role emphasizes AI-enabled operations and scalable, secure architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build a dedicated platform team to deploy, operate, and audit the Data Intelligence Platform across clouds and on-premises.
• Design cloud-agnostic deployments with Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps; own data catalog and knowledge graph services.
• Run AI agents for operations, retire redundant tools, and build infrastructure for AI/ML workloads.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Data catalog

Knowledge graph

Integration APIs

Cloud deployments

AI agents

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Actian seeks a platform leader to head a dedicated team responsible for deploying, operating, and auditing the Data Intelligence Platform across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments.

You will design cloud-agnostic deployments using Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps, and own platform services including the data catalog and knowledge graph. This senior role emphasizes AI-enabled operations and scalable, secure architectures.