Platform Engineering Manager

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Atlanta, GA
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Software • Database
The Role
The Platform Engineering Manager will lead teams to automate and operate the NexusOne data platform, ensuring performance and compliance while overseeing deployment processes and mentor staff.
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About Nexus

At Nexus, we help organizations turn complex data into clear, actionable insight — so the hard work behind artificial intelligence, analytics, and cloud infrastructure doesn’t slow innovation down… it accelerates it.

We’re a team of builders, problem-solvers, and collaborators who believe in moving fast, learning continuously, and doing great work together. Our role is to handle the heavy lifting of modern data platforms, governance, and cloud transformation so our clients can focus on making confident, strategic decisions that move their businesses forward.

We’re proud of the culture we’re building across the U.S. and India — one rooted in curiosity, ownership, collaboration, and care — and we’re excited to keep growing with people who want to do meaningful work alongside genuinely great teammates.

The Platform Engineering Manager will lead the engineering teams responsible for building, automating, and operating the NexusOne data platform within enterprise client environments
This individual is a player-coach — equally capable of hands-on delivery and strategic leadership — driving platform automation, scalability, and reliability across global deployments.

They will oversee a cross-functional team of Platform Engineers, DevOps, and DataOps resources, ensuring all NexusOne deployments meet performance, compliance, and uptime goals.

Core Responsibilities
  • Lead and mentor Platform Engineers, DevOps, and DataOps teams responsible for standing up and managing NexusOne environments.

  • Define and implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns and CI/CD pipelines for consistent, repeatable deployments.

  • Partner with the Platform Architect to translate solution designs into executable engineering plans.

  • Drive environment readiness (Pre-Prod, UAT, Production) in alignment with enterprise change management processes.

  • Establish and monitor operational SLAs, uptime metrics, and performance KPIs.

  • Ensure strong security posture, compliance with IAM policies, and integration with enterprise authentication frameworks.

  • Oversee patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management for all open-source components (Spark, Trino, Airflow, NiFi, Ranger, etc.).

  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems to ensure platform stability and continuous improvement.

  • Support internal and client-facing Architecture Review Boards and technical documentation efforts.

Key Skills & Tools
  • Infrastructure & Automation: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes (K8s), OpenShift (OCP), Vault, Ansible

  • Platform Components: Spark, Trino, Airflow, NiFi, Ranger, Iceberg, DataHub

  • Security & Networking: IAM, SSO, RBAC, Kerberos, firewall configurations, and secure network zoning

  • Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk

  • Languages & OS: Linux, Bash, Python, YAML, Go (plus familiarity with Java/Scala)

  • Process & Delivery: Agile/Scrum, DevOps, ITIL change management

Ideal Background
  • 8–12 years of experience managing platform or infrastructure teams in data platform, DevOps, or SRE organizations.

  • Strong background as a hands-on engineer in earlier roles; comfortable leading by example.

  • Experience at scale — e.g., Cloudera, Databricks, AWS EMR, or large hybrid-cloud enterprise environments.

  • Proven record building and mentoring global teams (USA/India model preferred).

  • Deep understanding of enterprise-grade deployment, observability, and operational excellence practices.

Success Criteria
  • Successful on-time deployment of NexusOne environments with high platform stability and zero major incidents.

  • Demonstrated improvement in deployment velocity and reduction in environment provisioning time.

  • Clear, measurable SLA adherence across uptime, performance, and support metrics.

  • Documented automation and CI/CD frameworks reusable across future clients.

  • Positive team engagement and retention; consistent delivery of high-quality, secure platform builds.

Why You’ll Love Working at Nexus

At Nexus, we value people who want to grow — and support each other while doing so.

You can expect:

  • A collaborative team culture built on curiosity and respect

  • Challenging work where your contributions clearly matter

  • A leadership team that invests in learning and development

  • The opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud, data, and AI innovation

Ready to Apply?

If this role sounds like a great fit — or even close to one — we’d love to hear from you. We know that no candidate checks every single box, and we’re excited to meet people who bring curiosity, talent, and a desire to build meaningful work together.

Top Skills

Airflow
Ansible
Bash
Datadog
Datahub
Gitlab Ci/Cd
Go
Grafana
Helm
Iam
Iceberg
Java
Jenkins
Kerberos
Kubernetes
Linux
Nifi
Openshift
Prometheus
Python
Ranger
Rbac
Scala
Spark
Splunk
Sso
Terraform
Trino
Vault
Yaml
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The Company
HQ: Atlanta, GA
80 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Nexus Cognitive takes enterprises from data to outcomes at unprecedented speed and scale. We’ve revolutionized the way enterprises get value from their data with a composable, agnostic framework that enables you to rapidly build new solutions with modular, pre-integrated data components. Built with open standards, we give you the freedom to work with the data, systems, and toolsets of your choice, while our universal data catalog provides robust governance to ensure compliance and cut risks.

Through close customer collaboration, we design solutions that connect data pipelines and increase data access from on-prem to multi-cloud, with complete visibility across the data ecosystem. Cut data complexity, get AI-ready, and prove ROI in weeks, not months with the fully managed data framework and outcomes from Nexus Cognitive.

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