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Do you want to build the foundations that let a fast-growing aviation SaaS company move faster, safer and more efficiently? Then we would love to hear from you.\nThis is a leadership role first. We are looking for someone who has done this before: built platform capability, raised the bar on reliability, and built high-performing teams. You know how to hire great people, develop talent, have direct conversations when needed, and create an environment where expectations are clear and accountability is shared. The technology matters, but how you lead is what will make you successful here.\nYou will report directly to our CTO and be part of the engineering leadership, with real influence over the technical direction of the company.\nAt QOCO, we develop SaaS solutions that help global airlines and MROs (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) turn complex data into smooth operations and reduced aircraft downtime. You will own the foundations everything else is built on.\nWhat you'll be doing\nOwning the roadmap for cloud infrastructure, reliability, observability, security and AI platform foundations\n\nLeading two teams: Infrastructure, and Customer Integrations, who work as technical specialists on customer delivery projects\n\nRunning the operations and outcomes of the Infrastructure team\n\nTreating reliability as a defined, defended number, with clear KPIs behind it\n\nLine managing the Customer Integrations engineers and allocating them efficiently across delivery projects\n\nHiring, growing and developing the capabilities of both teams\n\nBalancing long-term platform strategy with hands-on execution\n\nWhat we expect from you as a leader\nWe value open, respectful communication in both directions. We give feedback early and specifically, and we would always rather hear a concern in the moment than find out about it later. That includes when the concern is about our own decisions.\nYou will be set up to succeed on three things:\nThe growth and development of your team\n\nThe quality of the people you hire\n\nHow early problems get surfaced and solved\n\nThe culture of ownership and accountability\n\nOur leadership principle for this role: enable teams to build great products by providing a secure, reliable and scalable foundation.\nWhat we're looking for\n10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, both hands-on and leading, with teams of ten and up\n\nA proven people leader: sets the bar high, performance driven, and genuinely takes care of people\n\nStrong leadership and stakeholder management across engineering, product and commercial\n\nCloud-native and platform engineering expertise from an established or high-growth SaaS company\n\nA track record of building scalable platforms and driving reliability as a measurable outcome\n\nSRE and operational excellence focus\n\nSecurity and reliability by design as a default way of working\n\nUnderstanding of AI platform and infrastructure capabilities\n\nCommercial awareness and FinOps experience\n\nFluent in English, written and spoken\n\nHighly valued\nExperience leading SaaS infrastructure through a growth phase\n\nAI platform capabilities in production environments\n\nModern software delivery practices at scale\n\nAbout QOCO\nWe are a fast-growing company building next-generation SaaS solutions for the aviation industry, and a trusted partner of airlines, MROs and aircraft OEMs for over twelve years. Our mission is to help airline and MRO organizations unlock the full potential of their data to optimize operations and reduce aircraft downtime.\nWe're proud of our collaborative culture, international crew and real impact on aviation worldwide. Fun fact: we more than doubled our team size from 25 to over 65 employees between 2021 and 2025, and we now have over 15 nationalities in the crew. With our recent growth investment, most of that growth is still ahead of us.\nAt QOCO, you'll enjoy\nReal ownership and impact in your work\n\nAn experienced, collaborative and international engineering team\n\nThe chance to build the platform function as the company scales\n\nScale-up energy with global customers\n\nGood performance recognized and rewarded\n\nFlexible hours and a hybrid work model\n\nGreat benefits: lunch and sport perks, occupational healthcare, and free breakfast at the office\n\nIf you're excited about platform engineering as a product, meaningful technology, and leading teams that solve real problems in aviation, we'd love to hear from you.\nJoin us and help shape the future of aviation.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4668,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Finland","iso":"FI","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-17T02:02:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":52,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.7,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":31,"expected_fill_days":38,"reasons":["conf:1","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/qoco-senior-manager-platform-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/qoco-senior-manager-platform-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T21:46:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2954,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":712921},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=712921"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fqoco-senior-manager-platform-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fqoco-senior-manager-platform-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fqoco-senior-manager-platform-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/qoco-senior-manager-platform-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fqoco-senior-manager-platform-engineering"}]}