Head of Platform – Infrastructure, DevOps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Take charge of Mimica's infrastructure strategy and platform roadmap across all products, which includes cloud architecture, deployment models, infrastructure vendors, and platform standards.

• Lead and develop the Platform team, overseeing Platform and SREs, planning headcount, establishing goals and metrics, and designing sub-team structures.

• Manage AI infrastructure, which encompasses training and serving infrastructure, MLOps tooling, Vertex, and model access.

• Enhance the developer experience and establish streamlined processes for deployments while ensuring compliance.

• Oversee infrastructure and LLM budgets, including forecasting, unit economics, cost attribution, and maintaining the GCP relationship.

• Ensure reliability across engineering, incorporating SLOs, on-call responsibilities, incident management processes, postmortems, disaster recovery testing, and capacity planning.

• Manage CI/CD, developer platform, infrastructure-as-code, and observability standards.

• Identify client needs and convert them into the platform roadmap in collaboration with the Platform PM.

• Serve as the technical owner for infrastructure in enterprise agreements and security reviews, participating in sales and client meetings.

• Mentor craft guides and establish engineering-wide standards for reliability, on-call processes, CI/CD, and engineering excellence.

• Provide monthly reports on platform health and costs to leadership.

• Lead the technical due diligence related to infrastructure.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading engineers, preferably including the management of team leads or other managers, and developing a team through hiring and sub-team design.

• Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes across multiple regions; GKE is preferred, along with EKS, OnPrem, or another managed Kubernetes service.

• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and ArgoCD or a similar GitOps solution.

• Experience in setting SLOs and SLAs, managing on-call duties, leading incident responses and postmortems, and conducting disaster recovery testing.

• Familiarity with observability tools like Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana, or New Relic.

• Comfortable with coding and capable of reviewing architecture and prototypes directly.

• Experience managing an infrastructure budget, which includes cloud cost attribution, forecasting, and relationships with cloud providers.

• Skilled in designing enterprise deployment models, such as single tenant, regional, and data residency models, while supporting security reviews and contracted SLAs.

• Background in startups or scale-ups.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

• Knowledge of Crossplane or similar products like Config Connector is a plus.

• Experience with Temporal for workflow orchestration is advantageous.

• Familiarity with security and compliance, particularly in supporting SOC 2, is beneficial.

• Experience in supporting a funding round, including technical due diligence, is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation plus stock options.

• Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a combination of both.

• Company-issued laptop.

• Stipend for remote setup.

• Co-working budget support.

• Flexible schedules and work locations.

• Generous paid time off, in addition to local public holidays.

• Enhanced parental leave policies.

• Health and retirement benefits.

• Annual budget for learning and development.

• Opportunities for annual workaways.

• Regular virtual and in-person social events.

• Chance to engage in innovative projects that shape the future of work.