Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering

Job summary

The Manager, Platform Engineering leads a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure. This role combines hands-on technical leadership across Mas***’s Big Data Engineering team with people management responsibilities, enabling teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned to enterprise priorities. This leader will drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including infrastructure as code, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architectures, while fostering a high-performing, collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams with a customer-focused mindset.
• Ability to attract, grow, and develop exceptional talent in platform, cloud, or DevOps environments.
• Strong expertise across Big Data platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Cloudera.
• Experience managing or operating distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go).
• Strong understanding of operating systems and enterprise IT infrastructure.
• Experience integrating security requirements into platform engineering practices.
• Experience in enterprise-scale or regulated environments (preferred).
• Experience optimizing cloud cost, performance, and scalability (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions meeting scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency requirements.
• Oversee development and operation of container platforms and orchestration environments (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Ensure platform capabilities support evolving application performance and business needs.
• Establish and mature CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows for efficient, high-quality software delivery.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for consistent, automated infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Champion automation to reduce manual processes and increase reliability and speed.
• Guide teams in building and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Ensure systems are designed for fault tolerance, scalability, and performance.
• Oversee monitoring, observability, and operational health across platform services.
• Provide technical direction across software programming practices and frameworks.
• Ensure engineering solutions meet standards for performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Partner with application teams to align platform capabilities with development needs.
• Oversee management of operating systems and core IT infrastructure components (compute, storage, networking).
• Ensure platform environments are stable, performant, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Build and develop a high-performing, inclusive engineering team.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities for team members.
• Support hiring and talent development aligned to future capability needs.
• Drive accountability and execution against business objectives.
• Lead teams through ambiguity and cross-functional dependencies.
• Promote new technologies, tools, and ways of working.

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