Gitlab Administrator

Job description

Overview

The Gitlab administrator will have complete responsibility for administering the Healthinees Gitlab platform hosted on Amazon AWS. He will be responsible for the uptime of the gitlab environment as well as for configuring and extending gitlab to meet specific project requirements. The Gitlab administrator is expected to be a subject matter expert in Gitlab configuration, administration and troubleshooting.

Task and Responsibilities

· Lead by example in terms of solving a customer issue, updating documentation as a result, and then radiating this knowledge through documentation, as a guide, tech overview, or tutorial.
· Drive feature requests based on customer interactions
· Suggest and implement improvements to the support workflow
· Contribute to one or more complementary projects
· Participate in the on-call rotation to provide 24/7 emergency customer response
· Reliably respond to on-call emergencies

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

Education: University degree in engineering / computer science or similar

Experience: 5+ years of relevant work experience as a configuration management professional of which at least 2 years should be in supporting Gitlab.

Technical Skills:

· Can solve most support tickets in a reasonable time without escalating to development
· Expert in most advanced topics (e.g. LDAP, Jenkins/CI integration, Geo) including Gitlab CI/CD runners and pipelines
· Deep understanding of GitLab internals and a variety of possible configurations
· Debug challenging problems
· Submit merge requests to resolve GitLab bugs
· Able to triage and resolve GitLab issues
· Set up HA/DR, working with Containers and Schedulers (Kubernetes preferred) and also experience with AWS stack (EC2, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache)
· Package management (RPM, etc. to add/remove/list packages).
· Integration with other applications like Jenkins, Confluence, Selenium, Artifactory etc.
· Deep knowledge of software development lifecycle and development pipeline