About the Role Client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the operations team for gitlab.cee — Client's self-managed GitLab instance. This is a C1 (Mission-Critical) service serving ~10,000+ engineers with high availability architecture across multiple AWS regions. The platform is mature and operational. Your primary focus will be maintaining reliability, performing upgrades, managing compliance, and improving automation. You will provide US timezone coverage alongside existing team members, ensuring round-the-clock operational resilience for this critical platform.
What You'll Do
Operate and maintain production and pre-production GitLab environments
Perform GitLab version upgrades through the Stage-to-Production pipeline
Execute system patching, vulnerability remediation, and compliance tasks
Manage GitLab Shared Runner infrastructure
Manage GitLab Geo replication across primary and secondary sites
Conduct and maintain disaster recovery exercises and documentation
Automate secret rotation via Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)
Maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraform + GitLab CI)
GitLab 10k reference architecture with high availability
Geo replication across multiple AWS regions
Automated deployment via Ansible/Terraform + GitLab CI
Monitoring: Prometheus + Grafana + Datadog
C1 Mission-Critical service
This Role Is NOT
A build-from-scratch project — the infrastructure is mature and well-documented
A pure development role — this is infrastructure operations
A solo position — you join an existing team of engineers
A user support role — you manage the platform, not individual project workflows
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.This position's pay range is $70.00/hr - $77.25/hr.
