Senior Manager, Platform Infrastructure

Senior Engineering Manager – Platform Infrastructure Team

Collibra is looking for a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale a highly skilled team responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining the infrastructure that powers both Collibra production and developer environments s includes managing virtualized and containerized environments (primarily Kubernetes), core messaging and eventing tools like Rabbit

MQ, and shared platform services such as Elasticsearch.

• Provide architectural leadership for large‑scale, distributed systems, ensuring infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective.
• Drive the design, implementation, and ongoing optimization of cloud‑based infrastructure, focusing on containers (Kubernetes) and virtual machine environments.
• Lead 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 Git Ops 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., Rabbit
  
  MQ, Pulsar) to enable robust, scalable communication across microservices and distributed applications.

• 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 Dev Ops 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, inter‑cloud connectivity, and 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 Git Ops principles for automating Kubernetes‑based deployments and managing infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Deep experience with messaging and event‑driven architectures, including tools like Rabbit
  
  MQ, 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.

• 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.

Base salary range: $184,000 – $230,000 per year. This position is not eligible for additional commission‑based compensation. In addition to base salary, Collibra offers equity ownership at every level, bonus potential, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.

Collibra recognizes and values that everyone has different needs, interests, and life goals. We built our benefits program with flexibility in mind to support you and your loved ones through a diverse range of circumstances and life events. These flexible offerings sit on a foundation of competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off.

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At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We realize the key to creating a company with a world‑class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone.

With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category. If you have a need that requires accommodation, let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.