Senior Platform Engineering Lead
Hitachi, Ltd.4 months ago
Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own target architecture for a unified hybrid platform spanning on-premise infrastructure and AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Establish reusable platform services, self-service capabilities, reference architectures, design principles, standards, and governance processes.
- Define architecture for Kubernetes-based application platforms, service mesh patterns, Internal Developer Platforms, DevSecOps, observability, and automation.
- Design scalable data platform architectures including data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, and batch and streaming processing.
- Define AI/ML and MLOps platform architecture, including Agentic AI orchestration, LLM integrations, agent lifecycle management, reasoning workflows, and safety controls.
- Design on-premise data center, multi-cloud landing zone, connectivity, Infrastructure as Code, security, resilience, high availability, and FinOps architecture.
- Lead and mentor platform architects and engineering teams and communicate architecture vision to technical and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, or infrastructure architecture.
- Strong experience designing hybrid and multi-cloud platforms and defining enterprise-scale architecture standards.
- Proven leadership experience in architecture or senior technical roles.
- Deep expertise in at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, along with strong understanding of on-premise infrastructure and data center architecture.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystems and familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
- Strong architectural knowledge of modern data platforms; Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery experience is preferred.
- Preferred experience designing or enabling AI/ML platforms and MLOps pipelines, with understanding of LLM ecosystems, agent-based systems, and orchestration frameworks.
- Strong architecture, system design, governance, strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management, and cross-domain collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Industry-leading benefits, support, and services focused on holistic health and wellbeing.
- Flexible working arrangements dependent on role and location.
- A culture emphasizing life balance, autonomy, freedom, ownership, belonging, and knowledge sharing.
- Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process.
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About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. builds industrial, energy, rail, and digital systems for governments and enterprises, combining operational technology with IT, cloud, and data infrastructure services. Its portfolio spans power grids, factory automation, data centers, rail systems, and consulting delivered through units such as Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi Rail, and Hitachi Energy. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates globally across critical infrastructure markets.