Cloud Platform Engineer
Core
Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and developer tooling that powers GitLab's engineering organization, focusing on Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
Role type
Senior hands-on Cloud Platform Engineer
Builds
Production-grade Kubernetes clusters, GitOps workflows, and cloud infrastructure
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps / SRE
Required skills
Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Python, Bash, Go, Helm, Cloud Providers (AWS/GCP/Azure), Networking
Preferred skills
Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), Observability (Prometheus/Grafana), Crossplane
Technologies
Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault, Sealed Secrets, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Istio, Linkerd, Cilium, OPA, Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Crossplane
Responsibilities
Operate and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters; own and extend ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows; write and maintain Terraform modules; monitor platform health and respond to incidents; collaborate with application teams to onboard services; implement security controls like RBAC and secrets management.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
