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Staff Lead Platform DevOps Engineer
Location
Europe
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Staff Lead Platform DevOps Engineer
Mimica
• 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. • Instrument, monitor, and improve observability across our stack using tools such as Honeycomb and Grafana.
Job Requirements
- Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes, whether on GKE (preferred), EKS, OnPrem, or another managed Kubernetes service.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience leading and participating in incident responses.
Benefits
- Generous compensation + stock options - aligned with our internal framework, market data, and individual skills.
- Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix.
- Company-issued laptop, remote setup stipend, and 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
- Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work
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