Senior Manager, Platform Infrastructure

Summary

Join Collibra's Platform Infrastructure Team as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale a team responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining the infrastructure powering Collibra's production and developer environments. You will provide architectural leadership for large-scale systems, drive the design and implementation of cloud-based infrastructure, and oversee messaging and eventing systems. This role requires 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role, and expertise in Kubernetes, cloud networking, and infrastructure automation. Collibra offers a competitive salary, equity ownership, bonus potential, a Flex Fund, pension/401k plans, and comprehensive benefits including unlimited paid time off, global leave policies, and professional development opportunities. US citizenship and residency are required for this position.

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
• Competitive compensation
• Health coverage
• Time off
• 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
• 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