HQ: Relocated global headquarters to Tempe, Arizona (announced December 3, 2025; previously based in Oslo, Norway).

The Impact you bring to Cognite

• Own the overall deployment strategy across Private SaaS and Multi Cloud, ensuring consistency, scalability, and reliability.
• Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for platform services, developer tools, observability, and reliability practices.
• Define and execute the roadmap for deployment automation, environment management, observability, and continuous delivery.
• Drive operational excellence across all environments, ensuring uptime, performance, and service quality aligned to defined SLOs.
• Establish and maintain reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) and embed these into engineering culture and processes.
• Partner with the Architecture, Security, and Product teams to ensure platform services meet performance, compliance, and scalability goals.
• Champion platform reusability and internal developer productivity through tools, shared services, and CI/CD optimisation.
• Lead incident management and post-mortem practices, fostering learning and transparency.
• Collaborate with customers and partners for Private SaaS deployments to ensure secure, compliant, and high-performing environments.
• Mentor engineering managers and leads, driving a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to Cognite’s AI-native transformation, embedding automation, AI-assisted diagnostics, and intelligent observability into engineering operations.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership roles spanning platform, infrastructure, or reliability domains.
• Proven success leading SaaS or hybrid cloud deployments with high availability and stringent security requirements.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, etc.).
• Hands-on familiarity with observability and reliability practices (e.g., SLO/SLI, error budgets, incident management).
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical programs across multiple teams and time zones.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills able to partner with Product, Architecture, and Security to drive shared outcomes.
• Proven experience in building scalable engineering systems and teams that balance innovation with reliability.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to connect technical initiatives to business impact and customer outcomes.
• Passionate about modern engineering practices, developer productivity, and a culture of learning and excellence.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in data platforms, industrial, or mission-critical software.
• Background in multi-cloud or Private SaaS delivery models.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR, or similar.
• Exposure to AI-driven observability or autonomous remediation systems.
• Experience managing distributed teams across geographies (Europe and Asia).

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Join an organization of 60 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
• Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
• Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
• Get access to private health services with Cognite Care.
• Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by the chefs at Fornebuporten (Aker Tech House)
• Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
• We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
• A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot at the Robot Garden!

Equal Opportunity Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.