6 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomMid Level / Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Keep user-facing services and production systems reliable, scalable, and efficient.
- Build automation and infrastructure tooling that reduces toil and replaces manual work with repeatable infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Operate and troubleshoot production systems on Kubernetes, including deployments, rollouts, and scaling.
- Write and maintain infrastructure as code and ship changes safely through CI/CD and GitOps.
- Participate in on-call, alert triage, runbook improvement, escalation, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
- Contribute to observability using metrics, logs, and SLOs to detect symptoms early.
- Document runbooks, architecture decisions, and reviews so findings become repeatable practices.
Requirements
- Experience keeping production systems reliable while applying both an operations mindset and software engineering practice.
- Experience building new infrastructure tooling and automation, such as Terraform modules, Kubernetes operators or controllers, or production automation and services from scratch.
- Ability to read, debug, and reason about code; most teams use Go and some use Ruby.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and Kubernetes and its ecosystem at an appropriate depth.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: GCP or AWS.
- Familiarity with observability practices including metrics, logging, alerting, SLOs or SLIs, and data-informed operational decisions.
- Comfort participating in on-call and incident response with a structured troubleshooting approach.
- Strong written communication and ability to work as a manager-of-one in an asynchronous, distributed environment.
- Track record of using automation and increasingly AI to reduce toil and improve team workflows.
- Alignment with GitLab’s values.
Benefits
- Remote-first work in a globally distributed, asynchronous organization; this UK posting is open to candidates based in the United Kingdom only.
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental leave.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About GitLab
GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.