GitLab

Cloud Platform Engineer

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Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$126k - $213k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Operate, maintain, upgrade, scale, and improve production Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments.
  • Own and extend ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows, including Application Sets, synchronization policies, and deployment standards.
  • Write, review, and maintain Terraform modules for cloud infrastructure, including state management and drift detection.
  • Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and improve availability, performance, and observability.
  • Onboard application services to the platform and create documentation, runbooks, and self-service developer tooling.
  • Implement RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and infrastructure security and compliance controls.
  • Integrate platform capabilities with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Tekton CI pipelines.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of experience in a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE role.
  • Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes; EKS, GKE, or AKS experience is preferred.
  • Experience with ArgoCD or comparable GitOps tooling such as Flux.
  • Proficiency with Terraform, including remote state, workspaces, and module design.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Ability to write scripts and automation in Go, Python, and Bash.
  • Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management.
  • Understanding of DNS, load balancing, ingress, and service mesh concepts.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to document systems and collaborate across teams.
  • Preferred experience includes Istio, Linkerd, Cilium, OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Crossplane, multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes, open-source or internal platform tooling, and relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement; GitLab states that all roles are remote, subject to location-based eligibility requirements.
  • 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

AWSAzureBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmIstioKubernetesPrometheusPythonTektonTerraformVault

Categories

GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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