Senior GitLab Platform Engineer (HA/CI)

Hub; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Hybrid work model

Global team & international exposure

Job summary

Verda, a fast-growing AI cloud company with offices in London and Helsinki, is seeking a Senior GitLab Engineer to own our self-managed GitLab instance across CI/CD, container registry, and tooling. You will collaborate with IT, DevEx, and Security to keep GitLab secure, resilient, and scalable, as the platform grows with the business.

You will build and maintain automated backups, run shared CI runners, and ensure high availability, routing changes through staging before production.

Qualifications

• Proven experience running self-managed GitLab in production environments.
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills.
• Experience with HA architectures and disaster recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Own GitLab end-to-end: config, upgrades, backups, and roadmap.
• Ensure high availability and performance; plan capacity and scaling.
• Manage backups, recovery targets, and continuity with engineering teams.
• Develop and run shared CI runners; enforce security and access controls.
• Monitor GitLab health, storage, and incidents; drive RCA and fixes long term.
• Perform safe change management: test upgrades and config changes before production.

Skills

GitLab administration

Linux administration

CI/CD

High availability

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring

Security practices

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

Python

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kubernetes

Job description

Verda, a fast-growing AI cloud company with offices in London and Helsinki, is seeking a Senior GitLab Engineer to own our self-managed GitLab instance across CI/CD, container registry, and tooling. You will collaborate with IT, DevEx, and Security to keep GitLab secure, resilient, and scalable, as the platform grows with the business.

You will build and maintain automated backups, run shared CI runners, and ensure high availability, routing changes through staging before production.