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.
Head of Platform Engineering in Ottawa employer: Mimica
Mimica is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and innovative work culture, where employees are empowered to make impactful contributions to AI-driven solutions. With generous compensation packages, flexible work arrangements, and a strong emphasis on professional growth through learning opportunities, Mimica supports its team in navigating the fast-paced startup environment while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Join us in shaping the future of work, where your expertise in infrastructure and DevOps will be valued and recognized as we scale our groundbreaking platform.
