mimica - Head of Platform (Infrastructure & DevOps)

Remote - Europe+ Equity1w ago

Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineers, ideally including managing a team lead or other managers, and growing a team through hiring and sub-team design. • Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes, whether on GKE (preferred), EKS, OnPrem, or another managed Kubernetes service, across multiple regions. • Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code as a core part of your platform, such as Terraform, and with ArgoCD or a comparable GitOps tool. • A track record in owning reliability: setting SLOs and SLAs, running on-call, leading incident response and postmortems, and testing disaster recovery. • Observability experience with at least one major platform: Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana, or New Relic. • Comfortable with code, and able to review architecture and prototypes hands-on. • Experience owning an infrastructure budget, including cloud cost attribution, forecasting and cloud-provider relationships. • Experience designing deployment models for enterprise customers (single tenant, regional, data residency) and supporting security reviews and contracted SLAs. • Background in startups or scale-ups: you are used to ambiguity, moving fast, and wearing multiple hats. • Strong communication and collaboration skills: you can translate infrastructure complexity into clear language for engineers, executives and clients, and you know when to say no to bespoke requests. • Familiarity with Crossplane, or a similar product like Config Connector. • Experience with Temporal for workflow orchestration. • Security and compliance experience, particularly supporting SOC 2. • Experience supporting a funding round, including technical due diligence.

Responsibilities

• Own Mimica's infrastructure strategy and the platform roadmap across all products, with the final call on cloud architecture, deployment models, infra vendors and platform standards. • Lead and grow the Platform team: Manage existing Platform and SREs, plan headcount, set goals and metrics, and design the sub-team split (Cloud & Developer Platform, Reliability & SRE, AI Infrastructure) as the team grows. • Own all AI infrastructure, including training and serving infra, MLOps tooling, Vertex and model access. • Maintain Mimica’s DevEx culture - improve agency for product teams without compromising on compliance, create paved roads for deployments, and identify pain points as they arise. • Own the infra and LLM budget, forecast and unit economics, including cost attribution by product and customer and the GCP relationship. • Own reliability across engineering: SLOs, on-call model, incident process, postmortems, DR testing and capacity planning. • Own the CI/CD and developer platform, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ArgoCD, Crossplane) and observability standards (Honeycomb, Grafana, Loki). • Work with the Platform PM, your peer, to define client needs and turn them into the platform roadmap. • Act as the named technical owner for infrastructure in enterprise deals and security reviews, joining high-stakes sales and client calls and coaching your team to take the rest. • Guide the craft mentors for infrastructure, MLOps and Python engineering, and set engineering-wide standards for reliability, on-call, CI/CD and craft. • Report monthly platform health and costs to leadership, and lead the infrastructure part of technical due diligence.

Benefits

• 💰 Generous compensation + stock options - aligned with our internal framework, market data, and individual skills. • 🏢 Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix. • 💻 Company-issued laptop, remote setup stipend, and co-working budget • 📍 Flexible schedules and location • ☀️ Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays • 🍼 Enhanced parental leave • 📖 Annual learning & development budget • 🌴 Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials • 🌍 Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work • Note: Some benefits may vary depending on location and role • ⚠️ Mimica will only contact candidates from an @mimica.ai email address. We do not request banking or sensitive personal information during the recruiting process.