Senior Manager, Platform Infrastructure

Summary

Join Collibra's Platform Infrastructure Team as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale a highly skilled team responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining the infrastructure powering Collibra's production and developer environments. You will lead a diverse team, guide them in building highly available, scalable, and efficient infrastructure, and shape the technical direction. Responsibilities include providing architectural leadership for large-scale systems, driving cloud infrastructure optimization, leading cloud networking solutions design and implementation, driving GitOps adoption, overseeing messaging and eventing systems, and ensuring developer productivity. The role requires significant experience in engineering management, expertise in cloud infrastructure, and proficiency in various tools and technologies. Collibra offers competitive compensation, equity ownership, bonus potential, a Flex Fund, pension/401k plans, and comprehensive benefits including health coverage, unlimited paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in engineering, with at least 3+ years in a leadership or management role, overseeing teams focused on infrastructure, SRE, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices
• Proven expertise in managing large-scale, distributed infrastructure systems, including containerized environments (primarily Kubernetes), virtual machines, and cloud services (AWS, GCP)
• Expertise in cloud networking, including VPCs, DNS, routing, security groups, VPNs, load balancing, and inter-cloud connectivity plus experience with Istio and service mesh technologies, including traffic management, observability, mTLS, and security features
• Proficiency in infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps principles for automating Kubernetes-based deployments and managing infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Deep experience with messaging and event-driven architectures, including tools like RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar, or similar
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
• Because this role supports the US government, it is required that this candidate be a US citizen who resides on US soil

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership for large-scale, distributed systems, ensuring that infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective
• Drive the design, implementation, and ongoing optimization of our cloud-based infrastructure, focusing on containers (Kubernetes) and virtual machine environments
• Leading the design and implementation of cloud networking solutions for production and development environments, ensuring scalability, high availability, and security across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
• Drive the adoption of GitOps practices across the infrastructure and development teams, using ArgoCD to automate Kubernetes application deployment and infrastructure provisioning
• Oversee the architecture and management of messaging and eventing systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, Pulsar) to enable robust, scalable communication across microservices and distributed applications

Preferred Qualifications

• An excellent leader,, with a track record of managing, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams
• A strong communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and making data-driven decisions
• Highly motivated, result oriented and data driven person with a strong commitment to deliver
• An advocate for the needs of developers, ensuring that they have the right tools, environments, and infrastructure to accelerate software delivery
• Collaborative with other engineering leaders to define long-term infrastructure strategy, ensuring alignment with company goals and future technical needs

Benefits

• Equity ownership at every level
• Bonus potential
• A Flex Fund monthly stipend
• Pension/401k plans
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and other development opportunities
• Other rewards and recognition programs to help grow your career
• Comprehensive offerings including medical, dental, vision, and mental health benefits for you and your family
• Unlimited paid time off
• Global leave policies for a variety of personal and family circumstances
• Company-wide wellness days off throughout the year
• Meeting-free Wednesdays
• A flexible culture to help balance your work and your life