GitHub Administrator

Innovatia Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovatia Inc. is seeking a hands-on GitHub Administrator to own day-to-day governance of the GitHub environment, ensuring repositories, teams, users, access, and workflows follow established standards.

The role focuses on managing organizations, repositories, teams, and permissions, implementing branch protections, CODEOWNERS, and templates, and providing support for Git, PRs, and GitHub Actions. Training and office hours may be included.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with GitHub administration.
• Strong understanding of Git and GitHub workflows.
• Experience managing repositories, teams, users, and permissions.
• Understanding of GitHub Actions and repository governance.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day administration and governance of the GitHub environment, ensuring repositories, teams, users, access, and workflows are well managed and follow established standards.
• Manage GitHub organizations, repositories, teams, users, and permissions.
• Create, configure, archive, and maintain repositories.
• Manage team structures, membership, and repository access.
• Conduct regular access, repository, and team audits.
• Manage repository standards including branch protection, CODEOWNERS, and templates.
• Support users with Git, pull requests, branching, and GitHub workflows.
• Provide basic support for GitHub Actions and troubleshoot common issues.
• Support teams adopting Content-as-Code / Markdown-based workflows.
• Create documentation, onboarding material, and conduct GitHub office hours.
• Identify opportunities to improve governance, simplify processes, and automate repetitive tasks.

Skills

GitHub admin

Git workflows

Documentation

Communication

Problem-solving

Tools

GitHub CLI

GitHub API

GitHub Actions

Job description

Role Overview

Own the day-to-day administration and governance of the GitHub environment, ensuring repositories, teams, users, access, and workflows arewell managedand follow established standards.

Key Responsibilities

• ManageGitHub organizations, repositories, teams, users, and permissions.

• Create, configure, archive, andmaintainrepositories.

• Manageteam structures, membership, and repository access.

• Conduct regularaccess, repository, and team audits.

• Manage repository standards including branch protection, CODEOWNERS, and templates.

• Support users withGit, pull requests, branching, and GitHub workflows.

• Provide basic support forGitHub Actionsand troubleshoot common issues.

• Support teams adoptingContent-as-Code / Markdown-based workflows.

• Create documentation, onboarding material, and conduct GitHub office hours.

• Identifyopportunities to improve governance, simplify processes, and automate repetitive tasks.

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience withGitHub administration.

• Good understanding ofGit and GitHub workflows.

• Experience managingrepositories, teams, users, and permissions.

• Understanding of GitHub Actions and repository governance.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Nice to Have

• GitHub Enterprise experience.

• GitHub CLI/API knowledge.

• Basic scripting or automation experience.

• Experience with Content-as-Code or Documentation-as-Code.