Remote Director, Data Intelligence Platform Engineering

Actian Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Actian Corporation seeks a hands‑on leader to stand up and lead a new platform team responsible for the Data Intelligence Platform. You will design platform services, write infrastructure code, and set engineering standards for cross‑cloud deployments, including AWS, another public cloud, and on‑premises environments.

You will grow the team, drive CI/CD with GitOps, and ensure SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliance while controlling cloud costs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, including 3+ years managing engineers.
• Experience building or scaling a team, not only running an established one.
• Deep, hands‑on experience with Kubernetes in production, infrastructure as code (Terraform/Terragrunt), and GitOps delivery with Argo CD or similar tooling.
• Strong AWS experience, and the judgment to design for portability rather than lock‑in to a single cloud.
• Hands‑on experience operating systems under SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR controls, including data‑residency requirements.
• Clear written communication, suited to a fully remote team across US and EU time zones.
• Experience managing cloud costs and making cost trade‑offs explicit to engineering and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead platform services for the Data Intelligence Platform, including data catalog, knowledge graph, and APIs.
• Oversee cloud‑agnostic deployment across AWS, a second public cloud, and customer on‑premises environments.
• Manage internal developer platform and CI/CD with GitOps, enabling safe and rapid releases.
• Ensure security compliance (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR) with automated evidence gathering.
• Drive cloud cost management and FinOps across environments.
• Build and scale the platform team, establish operating model and standards.

Skills

Platform engineering

Team leadership

SRE/DevOps

Kubernetes

Terraform/Terragrunt

GitOps (Argo CD)

AWS

Security/compliance

Tools

Argo CD

Terraform/Terragrunt

Job description

Actian Corporation seeks a hands‑on leader to stand up and lead a new platform team responsible for the Data Intelligence Platform. You will design platform services, write infrastructure code, and set engineering standards for cross‑cloud deployments, including AWS, another public cloud, and on‑premises environments.

You will grow the team, drive CI/CD with GitOps, and ensure SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliance while controlling cloud costs.