Staff/Lead Platform/DevOps Engineer, Mimica

• Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes, whether on GKE (preferred), EKS, OnPrem, or another managed Kubernetes service. You know your way around cluster configuration, scheduling, RBAC, and debugging live issues
• Proven experience with Terraform as your primary IaC tool. Familiarity with Terragrunt is a plus
• IAM and identity management experience on at least one major hyperscaler: GCP (preferred) or AWS
• Experience with ArgoCD or a comparable GitOps tool for continuous delivery
• Observability experience with at least one major platform: Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana, or New Relic. You know how to set up meaningful dashboards, alerts, and traces
• Comfortable writing code, particularly Python, to automate platform tasks and build internal tooling
• Background in startups or scale-ups: you are used to ambiguity, moving fast, and wearing multiple hats
• Strong communication and collaboration skills: You can translate infrastructure complexity into clear language for application engineers, and you know when to raise a flag versus just fixing it
• Experience leading and participating in incident responses. You systematically decompose problems and know how to get to the root cause without panicking

Desirable

• Mimica is growing fast, and so is the demand on our Platform Team. As a DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will join a lean but highly capable team that is the backbone of every engineering squad in the company
• We service the entire engineering organisation: keeping environments healthy, unblocking teams, and building the infrastructure that lets everyone else move faster. We’re looking to increase our capacity as demand for our services is growing fast
• On top of the day-to-day demand from other teams, we are taking on some of our most ambitious infrastructure projects yet: expanding to multi-region and single-tenancy environments, supporting BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) deployments, migrating our IaC from Terraform to Crossplane, and getting serious about FinOps. This means the work is varied: one day you are debugging an RBAC issue in production, the next you are designing a multi-cloud access pattern from scratch
• We are looking for engineers with either an application development or a systems/infrastructure background
• What matters more than your origin story is your hands-on comfort with Kubernetes, IaC, and cloud platforms, your curiosity, and your ability to collaborate closely with other engineering teams. 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
• Support engineering teams across Mimica in developing mature, resilient applications running on GKE, advising on best practices and unblocking issues quickly
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and ArgoCD, as well as Mimica-specific Platform applications written in Python
• Manage and maintain GKE environments across multiple regions (EKS experience is also acceptable), including IAM and identity management on GCP (AWS acceptable)
• Investigate and triage issues in existing applications, observe database and system component health, and implement changes to support the SDLC of other teams
• Contribute to migrating our IaC layer from Terraform to Crossplane and support expansion into multi-region clusters and single-tenancy environments
• Drive FinOps initiatives, helping us get visibility into and control over cloud spend across multiple accounts and environments
• Help design and implement access patterns for new BYOC and single-tenancy environments, making it seamless for engineers to navigate an increasingly complex multi-environment landscape
• Instrument, monitor, and improve observability across our stack using tools such as Honeycomb and Grafana

• Our process is designed to be practical and respectful of your time. We want to see how you think, not just what you know
• Recruiter Screen (30–45 min) - A conversation with our Talent Partner to explore your background, motivations, and culture fit
• Live Technical Challenge: Triage & Debug (1 h) - A hands-on live challenge with the Hiring Manager and a member of the team
• System Design Interview (1h) - A live session focused on infrastructure design: we will walk through a real architectural problem and discuss trade-offs
• Behavioural Interview (60 min) - A deeper conversation with the Engineering Manager for Platform and our Co-founder & CTO
• Offer & Identity Verification