Mimica is growing fast, and so is the demand on our Platform Team. As Head of Platform, you will lead a lean but highly capable team that is the backbone of every engineering squad in the company, and you will own the infrastructure strategy, including all AI infrastructure, as we scale.
The Platform team services the entire engineering organisation: keeping environments healthy, unblocking teams, building the infrastructure that lets everyone else move faster, and working with teams regarding SRE topics and developer experience too. As you work with us, the role will develop into designing Mimica’s infrastructure strategy at scale. The team has 4 engineers today, around 6 by the end of the year, and 10+ in 2027, so the role has the potential to grow into a “manager of managers” level as the company grows.
This is a role with real scope: expanding to multi-region and physically separated database environments, supporting Mimica’s first installable infrastructure component for enterprise, and owning FinOps. One day you are defining the standard menu of deployment options for enterprise customers, the next you are in a security review or an architecture decision on AI infrastructure.
We are looking for leaders with either an application development or a systems/infrastructure background.
What matters more than your origin story is your hands-on credibility with Kubernetes, IaC, and cloud platforms, your ability to lead engineers and other leaders, and your ability to collaborate closely with Product, ML, Security, Sales and Customer Success. If you want to work in a place where your contributions are visible, your scope is broad, and the problems are real, this is the role for you.
- 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.
