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Salary: USD 126,000 - 213,000 / annual
GitLab is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Runway team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and developer tooling that powers the engineering organization. This is a hands-on technical role at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and developer experience.
Key Responsibilities:
• Kubernetes Platform Management: Operate, maintain, and improve production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments; manage cluster lifecycle including upgrades, scaling, and reliability.
• GitOps & Continuous Delivery: Own and extend ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows; develop and maintain Application Sets, manage sync policies, and enforce deployment standards across environments.
• Infrastructure as Code: Write, review, and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud infrastructure; enforce IaC best practices including module reuse, state management, and drift detection.
• Platform Reliability: Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and drive improvements to availability, performance, and observability.
• Developer Enablement: Collaborate with application teams to onboard services onto the platform; create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity.
• Security & Compliance: Implement RBAC, network policies, secrets management (e.g., Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator), and ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate platform capabilities with CI pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton) to support end-to-end delivery workflows.
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, trusted by more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100. The company embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier and values continuous knowledge exchange and high-performance culture.
Requirements:
• 3–5 years of experience in a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE role
• Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments (EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred)
• Demonstrable experience with ArgoCD or comparable GitOps tooling (Flux, etc.)
• Proficiency in Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning; familiarity with remote state, workspaces, and module design
• Experience working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Comfortable writing scripts and automation in Python, Bash, or Go
• Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management
• Understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, ingress, service mesh concepts
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document systems clearly and collaborate across teams
Nice to Have:
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cilium)
• Familiarity with policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno
• Exposure to observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki)
• Knowledge of Crossplane or other Kubernetes-native IaC approaches
• Contributions to open-source projects or internal platform tooling
• Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes architectures
• Relevant certifications: CKA, CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate
