Cloud Platform Engineer

GitLab is hiring a Cloud Platform Engineer for its Runway team. The role designs, builds, and maintains infrastructure and developer tooling, with a focus on Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, platform reliability, and developer enablement.

Responsibilities:

• Kubernetes Platform Management — Operate, maintain, and improve production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments; manage cluster lifecycle including upgrades, scaling, and reliability
• GitOps & Continuous Delivery — Own and extend our ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows; develop and maintain Application Sets, manage sync policies, and enforce deployment standards across environments
• Infrastructure as Code — Write, review, and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud infrastructure; enforce IaC best practices including module reuse, state management, and drift detection
• Platform Reliability — Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and drive improvements to availability, performance, and observability
• Developer Enablement — Collaborate with application teams to onboard services onto the platform; create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity
• Security & Compliance — Implement RBAC, network policies, secrets management (e.g., Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator), and ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements
• CI/CD Integration — Integrate platform capabilities with CI pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton) to support end-to-end delivery workflows

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of experience in a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE role
• Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• 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
• EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred
• Demonstrable experience with ArgoCD or comparable GitOps tooling (Flux, etc.)
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cilium)
• Familiarity with policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno
• Exposure to observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki)
• Knowledge of Crossplane or other Kubernetes-native IaC approaches
• Contributions to open-source projects or internal platform tooling
• Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes architectures
• Relevant certifications: CKA, CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate