Cloud Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain the infrastructure and developer tools that drive GitLab’s engineering team.

• Operate, maintain, and enhance production-grade Kubernetes clusters across various cloud environments.

• Oversee the Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, including upgrades, scaling, and ensuring reliability.

• Take ownership of and expand ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows, Application Sets, synchronization policies, and deployment standards.

• Create, review, and manage Terraform modules for the provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure.

• Monitor the health of the platform, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and enhance availability, performance, and observability.

• Collaborate with application teams to onboard services onto the platform effectively.

• Develop documentation, runbooks, and self-service tools to enhance developer productivity.

• Implement RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and security/compliance measures.

• Integrate platform functionalities with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton CI pipelines.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE position.

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production settings (EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred).

• Proven experience with ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools (like Flux, etc.).

• Proficient in Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning; knowledge of remote state, workspaces, and module design.

• Experience with at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

• Comfortable with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.

• Familiar with Helm for managing Kubernetes packages.

• Understanding of networking basics: DNS, load balancing, ingress, and service mesh concepts.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of documenting systems clearly and collaborating across teams.

• Nice-to-have: experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cilium).

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with policy-as-code tools like OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno.

• Nice-to-have: exposure to observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki).

• Nice-to-have: knowledge of Crossplane or other Kubernetes-native Infrastructure as Code methods.

• Nice-to-have: contributions to open-source projects or internal platform tools.

• Nice-to-have: experience with multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes architectures.

• Nice-to-have: relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits designed to support your health, finances, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Access to Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.