Head of Platform (Infrastructure & DevOps)

The role

You will lead the Platform team and own the infrastructure strategy, including AI infrastructure, as the company scales. You will manage engineers, oversee the infrastructure budget, and maintain developer experience and reliability across the engineering organization.

What you will do

• Own Mimica's infrastructure strategy and the platform roadmap
• Lead and grow the Platform team including managing existing Platform and SREs
• Own all AI infrastructure including training and serving infra, MLOps tooling, Vertex and model access
• Maintain Mimica’s DevEx culture
• Own the infra and LLM budget, forecast and unit economics
• Own reliability across engineering including SLOs, on-call model, incident process, postmortems, DR testing and capacity planning
• Own the CI/CD and developer platform, infrastructure-as-code and observability standards
• Work with the Platform PM to define client needs
• Act as the named technical owner for infrastructure in enterprise deals and security reviews
• Guide the craft mentors and set engineering-wide standards

Required qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineers, ideally including managing a team lead or other managers
• Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
• Experience 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 and supporting security reviews and contracted SLAs
• Background in startups or scale-ups
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

• 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

Benefits

• Generous compensation + stock options
• Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix
• Company-issued laptop
• remote setup stipend
• co-working budget
• Flexible schedules and location
• Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Health & retirement benefits
• Annual learning & development budget
• Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials

About the company

Mimica is an AI-powered process intelligence platform that automatically analyzes team work and generates AI agents to execute it. The company is remote-first and globally distributed across 16+ countries.