Head of Platform Engineering

Lead Mimica’s platform engineering with Kubernetes and cloud architecture expertise. Own infrastructure strategy while supporting distributed engineering teams across the organization.

As Head of Platform, you will lead a growing Platform team serving every engineering squad. You will shape infrastructure strategy, platform standards, and reliability practices while owning AI infrastructure, developer experience, and FinOps. The work spans multi-region databases, enterprise deployment models, security reviews, and architecture decisions. You will collaborate with Product, ML, Security, Sales, and Customer Success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own infrastructure strategy, platform roadmap, and cloud architecture decisions
• Lead Platform and SRE hiring, goals, metrics, and team design
• Own AI infrastructure, MLOps tooling, Vertex, and model access
• Set reliability, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability standards
• Manage infrastructure budgets, forecasting, attribution, and GCP relationships

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading engineers and growing platform teams
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience across multiple regions
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and GitOps tools
• Reliability ownership covering SLOs, incidents, postmortems, and disaster recovery
• Experience with observability platforms such as Honeycomb or Grafana

Bring hands-on Kubernetes, cloud, reliability, and leadership expertise to guide Mimica’s expanding platform organization.