Cloud Platform Engineer

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About the role

  • Cloud Platform Engineer building GitLab’s Kubernetes, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code platform. Supporting developer productivity, reliability, security, and cloud delivery workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and developer tooling that powers GitLab’s engineering organization
  • Operate, maintain, and improve production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments
  • Manage Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, including upgrades, scaling, and reliability
  • Own and extend ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows, Application Sets, sync policies, and deployment standards
  • Write, review, and maintain Terraform modules for cloud infrastructure provisioning and management
  • Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and improve availability, performance, and observability
  • Collaborate with application teams to onboard services onto the platform
  • Create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling to improve developer productivity
  • Implement RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and security/compliance controls
  • Integrate platform capabilities with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Tekton CI pipelines

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of experience in a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE role
  • Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments (EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred)
  • Demonstrable experience with ArgoCD or comparable GitOps tooling (Flux, etc.)
  • Proficiency in Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning; familiarity with remote state, workspaces, and module design
  • Experience working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Comfortable writing scripts and automation in Python, Bash, or Go
  • Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, ingress, service mesh concepts
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document systems clearly and collaborate across teams
  • Nice-to-have: experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cilium)
  • Nice-to-have: familiarity with policy-as-code tools such as 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 IaC approaches
  • Nice-to-have: contributions to open-source projects or internal platform tooling
  • Nice-to-have: experience with multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes architectures
  • Nice-to-have: relevant certifications: CKA, CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate

Benefits

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$126,000 - $213,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudDNSFluxGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraformGo

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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