Senior Systems Engineer - GitLab Administration (Hybrid- San Diego, CA or Kirkland, WA)
Stage 4 Solutions · Kirkland, WA · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineering$65–$69.67/hrContract
Responsibilities
- Operate GitLab and Artifactory platforms with high availability across multiple datacenters
- Execute upgrades, security patching, and infrastructure modernization with minimal downtime
- Manage GitLab Geo replication, PostgreSQL HA clusters, and Artifactory Hub/Edge architectures
- Build observability dashboards using Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk, and establish SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
- Implement GitOps patterns and support Kubernetes migrations
- Develop automation for self-healing and automated remediation
- Collaborate cross-functionally on migrations and architecture decisions
- Participate in an on-call rotation and drive MTTR reduction
Requirements
- 5+ years of operating enterprise-scale platforms
- 3+ years of GitLab self-managed administration with Geo and HA
- 3+ years of Artifactory administration with Hub/Edge architectures
- 2+ years of operational Kubernetes experience with Helm or Helmfile
- 5+ years of Linux administration experience with RHEL or CentOS
- PostgreSQL HA cluster management experience; Patroni preferred
- Experience with load balancers such as F5 or NGINX, DNS, TLS, and network troubleshooting
- Monitoring experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
- Automation experience with Ansible, Puppet, Python, and Bash
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and artifact promotion
- FedRAMP IL4 or IL5 experience preferred
- Bachelor's degree
- Preferred: JFrog Xray and GitOps experience, including ArgoCD or Flux, Supply chain security experience, including SBOMs and image signing, Policy-as-code experience with OPACloud platform experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP
Benefits
Health benefits and 401K are offered.
Pay
$65/hr - $69.67/hr.