Senior GitLab Engineer — CI/CD & HA Architect

Verda; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash and equity compensation

Global team environment

Impactful work with leading engineers

Job summary

Verda is seeking a Senior GitLab Engineer to own our self-managed GitLab and run it as a reliable service for engineering teams. You will collaborate with IT, DevEx and Security to ensure upgrades, backups, security policies, and scalable CI pipelines.

The role combines hands-on administration with design for resilience, continuous improvement, and strong DevOps practices. You’ll work in Helsinki with a hybrid model, three days at the office, contributing to a growing cloud AI infrastructure

Qualifications

• Several years running self-managed GitLab in production, including upgrades, backups, restores and incidents.
• Deep understanding of GitLab components (Rails, Sidekiq, Gitaly, PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage) and failure modes.
• Experience with GitLab reference architectures and HA designs, including trade-offs Linux package vs cloud-native deployments.
• Running GitLab Runner at scale: executors, autoscaling, caching, isolation, and runner security.
• Strong Linux skills and infrastructure as code, with Terraform, Ansible, or Salt, and automation in Bash, Python, or similar.
• Monitoring with Prometheus-compatible tooling and Grafana, or equivalent.
• A service mindset: you see developers as your users and want GitLab to work well for them.

Responsibilities

• Own GitLab end to end: configuration, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and roadmap.
• Architecture and resilience: design for high availability and performance as Verda grows.
• Backup, recovery, and continuity: automated backups and tested restores with defined targets.
• Shared CI runners: build and run the shared runner fleet and govern custom runners.
• Monitoring and reliability: monitor health, performance, and capacity; lead incident response.
• Safe change: test upgrades/config changes in staging and keep rollback plans.
• Security and access: keep GitLab patched, set up SSO and audit logs.
• Automation and documentation: automate admin work and train backup owners.

Skills

GitLab in prod

GitLab components

HA architectures

GitLab Runner at scale

Linux & IaC

Monitoring & alerting

Service mindset

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Salt

Bash

Python

Prometheus

Grafana

GitLab

Job description

Verda is seeking a Senior GitLab Engineer to own our self-managed GitLab and run it as a reliable service for engineering teams. You will collaborate with IT, DevEx and Security to ensure upgrades, backups, security policies, and scalable CI pipelines.

The role combines hands-on administration with design for resilience, continuous improvement, and strong DevOps practices. You’ll work in Helsinki with a hybrid model, three days at the office, contributing to a growing cloud AI infrastructure