Director of Platform Engineering

Summary

Join LanguageWire as the Director of Platform Engineering and lead a team of SREs in building and maintaining a scalable, secure, and observable platform. You will provide technical leadership, defining the platform engineering vision, and guide your team using the OKR framework. This role requires strong technical expertise in areas such as public cloud, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines, as well as proven leadership and collaboration skills. You will work closely with other tech directors and support engineering teams in operating their products and services. Success will be measured by the consolidation of infrastructure, the autonomy of engineering teams, and the growth of your team. LanguageWire offers a variety of benefits, including flexible work options, private health insurance, and a fun, inclusive company culture.

Requirements

• You are a hands-on technical expert on Platform Engineering
• Public cloud (we use Azure & GCP)
• Cloud networking & distributed networking (servicemesh etc)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps)
• Modern software development processes (Trunk-based development, shift-left testing, CI/CD, …)
• Observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Elastic, …)
• FinOps & cost optimization
• You are a leader
• Proven experience with leading, motivating and engaging an international, distributed team of smart engineers
• You stand out as a trusted leader and respected mentor in your team
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Strong experience attracting and retaining top talent
• You are a team player
• You love solving complex puzzles with engineers from different areas and different backgrounds
• You’re eager to understand how the different areas of the ecosystem connect to create the complete value chain
• Excellent presentation and data visualization skills. You’re comfortable reporting and presenting to the executive leadership
• Fluent English (reading, writing, speaking)

Responsibilities

• Lead a tribe of 6-8 SREs
• Build a culture of trust, ownership and innovation
• Be a trusted mentor to your team and helping your colleagues to grow professionally
• Guide the planning of the team in a data-driven way using the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework
• Push our engineering excellence forward across the entire organization
• Provide strategic direction & vision in the form of a platform engineering roadmap to ensure scalability, resilience, security, capacity, and operational maintenance
• Work closely with our Technical Enablement team (architecture, data, security and performance) to ensure alignment
• Drive the strategy execution across the entire tech organization by closely collaborating with other tech directors and teams
• Support engineering teams so they are empowered to operate their own products and services. We follow the “you build it, you run it” paradigm
• Ensure optional operations of our products and services
• Ensure that our common infrastructure and services work flawlessly
• Ensure great observability across the entire ecosystem
• Keep our costs under control by applying FinOps practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge about cybersecurity (SCA, SAST, container scanning, OPA, …)
• Knowledge about identity management (Active Directory, OIDC, SAML, Keycloak, …)

Benefits

• Enjoy flat hierarchies, responsibility and freedom, direct feedback, and room to stand up for your own ideas
• Internal development opportunities, ongoing support from your People Partner, and an inclusive and fun company culture
• International company with over 400 employees. Offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Stockholm, Varberg, London, Leuven, Lille, Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Zurich, Kiev, Gdansk, Atlanta, Finland and Valencia
• We offer flexible work options tailored to how you work best. Depending on your team, you may have the option to work full-time from the office as an “Office Bee,” part-time from the office as a “Nomad,” or full-time from home as a “Homey.”
• We take care of our people and initiate many social get-togethers from Friday Bars a to Summer or Christmas parties. We have fun!
• 200 great colleagues in the Valencia office belonging to different business departments
• Excellent location in cool and modern offices in the city center, with a great rooftop terrace and a view over the Town Hall Square
• Private health insurance
• Working in an international environment—more than 20 different nationalities
• A dog friendly atmosphere
• Big kitchen with access to organic fruits, nuts and biscuits and coffee
• Social area and game room (foosball table, darts, and board games)
• Bike and car parking