Director of Platform Engineering

Novi Labs is an AI-driven SaaS company based in Austin, Texas. Our mission is to improve the economic outcomes of energy investments. Novi was founded by industry experts, data scientists and software engineers to solve a hard problem in oil and gas: turning a huge volume of data into insight people can act on. Our customers include operators, hedge funds, research institutions, royalty buyers and energy investors who together invest hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Novi uses AI and better data to take risk out of those decisions.

Novi Labs is an AI-driven SaaS company based in Austin, Texas. Our mission is to improve the economic outcomes of energy investments. Novi was founded by industry experts, data scientists and software engineers to solve a hard problem in oil and gas: turning a huge volume of data into insight people can act on. Our customers include operators, hedge funds, research institutions, royalty buyers and energy investors who together invest hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Novi uses AI and better data to take risk out of those decisions.

Everything Novi sells runs on data: US and Canadian well, production and forecast data, delivered through our SaaS apps and APIs. The Director of Platform Engineering owns the systems all of it runs on. You’ll build and lead a new Platform Engineering group. It owns architecture standards, security and compliance, backups and recovery, monitoring and incident response, deploys and access, and cloud cost.

You’ll also lead the work of bringing the platforms Novi has acquired onto one Novi platform: shared sign-in, one cloud and one way to deploy. The goal is simple. Product teams spend their time on product, and we find problems before our customers do. This leadership role is based at Novi’s HQ in Austin, TX, or remote. You’ll lead a distributed team, and you’ll stay hands‑on enough to review a Terraform change or work an outage with your engineers.

• Build and lead Platform Engineering. Hire, coach and grow a team of Dev Ops and platform engineers, starting with three engineers.
• Set systems and database architecture standards. Review significant designs before they’re built, and push for reuse before we build something new.
• Own security and compliance. Lead SOC2 from plan to audit, run vulnerability management, and own identity and access across our environments.
• Own backup and recovery. Every production system backed up, monitored, and restored on a regular schedule to prove it works.
• Own monitoring, alerting and incident response. Every alert has an owner, there’s a named responder each week, and runbooks exist for the systems that matter. Partner with the Director of Software Delivery on incident reviews.
• Own deploys and access. Repeatable CI/CD, at least two trained people for every critical system, and secrets managed in one place.
• Own cloud cost across AWS and Azure. Monthly cost reviews with Finance, rightsizing, and reservation decisions.
• Lead the move to one Novi platform: consolidating onto AWS, shared authentication and shared deploy paths.
• Provide the paved road. Software teams keep building and running their own services, features and data pipelines. You give them the standards, tools and templates that make doing it right the easy path.
• Report platform health to the executive team monthly, with a scorecard the business can read.

• Every production system has an owner, monitored backups and tested restores.
• SOC2 has an owner and a plan the business can see.
• Alerts reach a named person, and we catch problems before customers report them.
• No critical system depends on one person to deploy it.
• Cloud spend has an owner and a monthly…