The Platform Engineering Manager will lead the engineering teams responsible for building, automating, and operating the NexusOne data platform within enterprise client environments.

This individual is a player-coach — equally capable of hands-on delivery and strategic leadership — driving platform automation, scalability, and reliability across global deployments.

They will oversee a cross-functional team of Platform Engineers, DevOps, and DataOps resources, ensuring all NexusOne deployments meet performance, compliance, and uptime goals.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor Platform Engineers, DevOps, and DataOps teams responsible for standing up and managing NexusOne environments.
• Define and implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns and CI/CD pipelines for consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Partner with the Platform Architect to translate solution designs into executable engineering plans.
• Drive environment readiness (Pre-Prod, UAT, Production) in alignment with enterprise change management processes.
• Establish and monitor operational SLAs, uptime metrics, and performance KPIs.
• Ensure strong security posture, compliance with IAM policies, and integration with enterprise authentication frameworks.
• Oversee patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management for all open-source components (Spark, Trino, Airflow, NiFi, Ranger, etc.).
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems to ensure platform stability and continuous improvement.
• Support internal and client-facing Architecture Review Boards and technical documentation efforts.

Key Skills & Tools

• Infrastructure & Automation: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes (K8s), OpenShift (OCP), Vault, Ansible
• Platform Components: Spark, Trino, Airflow, NiFi, Ranger, Iceberg, DataHub
• Security & Networking: IAM, SSO, RBAC, Kerberos, firewall configurations, and secure network zoning
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk
• Languages & OS: Linux, Bash, Python, YAML, Go (plus familiarity with Java/Scala)
• Process & Delivery: Agile/Scrum, DevOps, ITIL change management

Ideal Background

• 8–12 years of experience managing platform or infrastructure teams in data platform, DevOps, or SRE organizations.
• Strong background as a hands-on engineer in earlier roles; comfortable leading by example.
• Experience at scale — e.g., Cloudera, Databricks, AWS EMR, or large hybrid-cloud enterprise environments.
• Proven record building and mentoring global teams (USA/India model preferred).
• Deep understanding of enterprise-grade deployment, observability, and operational excellence practices.

Success Criteria

• Successful on-time deployment of NexusOne environments with high platform stability and zero major incidents.
• Demonstrated improvement in deployment velocity and reduction in environment provisioning time.
• Clear, measurable SLA adherence across uptime, performance, and support metrics.
• Documented automation and CI/CD frameworks reusable across future clients.
• Positive team engagement and retention; consistent delivery of high-quality, secure platform builds.