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Senior Gitlab DevOps Consultant Job Stivlon Consulting
Senior Gitlab DevOps Consultant Job
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One of our clients, a leader in the IT services is looking for a highly skilled and innovative Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to lead the reimplementation and administration of a self-managed GitLab environment on Microsoft Azure. This role is critical in designing a well-architected, scalable, and secure DevOps platform tailored to the needs of modern engineering teams. You will be responsible for the architecture, deployment, and operational management of GitLab’s self-hosted components, with a strong emphasis on infrastructure-as-code, automation, and native Azure services. Following the successful rollout, you’ll collaborate with engineering teams to support and extend CI/CD workflows, integrating GitLab pipelines and potentially Azure DevOps where appropriate.
Key Deliverables-
- Design and deploy a self-managed, highly available GitLab architecture on Azure.
- Provision infrastructure using automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Select appropriate Azure-native services for compute, storage, data, and networking.
- Implement backup/restore workflows, storage replication, monitoring, and disaster recovery processes aligned with enterprise RTO/RPO targets.
- Collaborate with network and platform teams to enforce RBAC, logging, and auditing, and SSO/LDAP integration.
- Provide operational documentation and onboarding materials for engineering teams to consume the GitLab platform for CI/CD.
- Assist teams in building and migrating pipelines to GitLab, integrating with container registries, cloud artifacts, and deployment tools.
- Define procedures for patching, version upgrades, and GitLab Runner autoscaling.
Requirements-
- Minimum of 5 years experience managing self-hosted GitLab environments at scale, including service component tuning and service separation.
- Deep knowledge of GitLab’s highly available (HA) architecture, especially Gitaly clusters, Praefect, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq.
- Hands-on Azure experience provisioning and configuring IaaS and PaaS services using Terraform and Ansible.
- Understanding of GitLab CI/CD runner configurations and pipeline security best practices.
- Solid grasp of monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor.
- Familiarity with backup and disaster recovery strategies for distributed GitLab components.
- Ability to communicate infrastructure design and risks to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Preferred skills
- Experience working with Kubernetes and Helm, particularly for GitLab self-hosting on Azure.
- Experience with GitLab version upgrades, schema migrations, and maintenance in highly available environments.
- Prior deployments of self-hosted GitLab for highly regulated, enterprise organisations (e.g., banking, finance).
- GitLab certifications or experience contributing to GitLab Community/Enterprise projects.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to apply via
Iboampong@castillians.com
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