GitLab DevOps Engineer

About the role

The GitLab DevOps Engineer will design, deploy, and maintain a highly available GitLab platform across multiple sites. You will be responsible for ensuring continuous delivery pipelines remain reliable, secure, and performant in a VM‑based environment.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and deploy GitLab using Omnibus packages on virtual machines with full HA configuration.
• Set up and maintain GitLab Geo replication between primary and backup sites.
• Configure PostgreSQL HA clusters with Patroni, etcd, PgBouncer, and HAProxy.
• Implement Gitaly clusters with Praefect for repository sharding and high availability.
• Deploy MinIO as an on‑prem object storage backend with bucket‑level replication.
• Isolate Redis as a non‑replicated cold standby at the Geo secondary site.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform.
• Integrate GitLab with internal DNS, firewall, and networking services for HA and disaster‑recovery readiness.
• Configure and manage GitLab Runners with appropriate executor strategies using Kubernetes.
• Develop and execute backup, restore, and failover testing procedures and produce detailed architecture documentation and SOPs.

Required profile

• Hands‑on experience deploying GitLab Omnibus in production environments.
• Strong background in VM‑based architectures such as VMware, KVM, or Hyper‑V.
• Proven ability to design and operate HA solutions for databases, storage, and networking.

Required skills

• GitLab (Omnibus, Geo, Gitaly, Praefect, Runners, CI/CD)
• PostgreSQL HA (Patroni, etcd, PgBouncer, HAProxy)
• Redis, MinIO (or S3‑compatible) object storage
• Terraform
• VMware / KVM / Hyper‑V
• Kubernetes (k8s) for runner execution
• Network configuration (DNS, firewalls, VIPs, load balancing, inter‑site routing)
• Backup, restore and failover testing
• Technical documentation and SOP creation