Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, US Public Sector Services

GitLab; Fort Worth (TX); Remote; USD 103,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Site Reliability Engineer focused on automating and maintaining user-facing services within a dynamic environment. This role emphasizes collaboration, operational excellence, and the application of sound engineering principles to enhance GitLab's production systems. You will engage in exciting projects, such as deploying microservices on Kubernetes and developing automation for GitLab environments. If you are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies and improving operational workflows, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field.

Qualifications

• Experience in running and operating production workloads.
• Strong programming skills with Ruby and/or Go.
• Background with Infrastructure as Code technologies.

Responsibilities

• Automate operational tasks and maintain GitLab environments.
• Develop monitoring and alerting systems for capacity needs.
• Collaborate with engineering stakeholders to resolve bottlenecks.

Skills

Ruby

Go

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Kubernetes

Cloud Security Practices

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

ELK

Prometheus

Job description

Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, US Public Sector Services

Remote, US

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

An overview of this role

As a Site Reliability Engineer at GitLab, you are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly. Our SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our operating environments and the GitLab codebase.

As an SRE within the US Public Sector Services team, you primarily focus on operating a large number of GitLab environments, through automating all workflows - from provisioning new environments to daily operating tasks. This is the main difference between Environment Automation SRE and other SREs at GitLab; your day to day will be occupied by automation tasks of a large number of GitLab environments (and the environments used by GitLab), and operational tasks across many environments.

Some examples of the projects you could work on:

• The automation used to operate a large number of GitLab environments.
• Creating deployment packages of GitLab such as GitLab Helm Chart, omnibus-gitlab, etc.
• Building Dedicated GitLab setups using infrastructure as code automation with Ansible and Terraform and integrate with Cloud Native services from cloud providers (e.g., GCP, AWS).
• Building tools to orchestrate infrastructure as code workloads.
• Deploy and operate microservices on top of Kubernetes.
• Working on the GitLab observability stack (e.g., ELK, Prometheus).
• Interact with various cloud provider systems (e.g., GCP, AWS).
• Developing, evangelizing, and monitoring the adoption of sound cloud security practices.

What you’ll do

• Build: Automate every operational task is a core requirement for Environment Automation SRE. E.g., package updates, configuration changes across all customer platforms without interruptions, tools for automatic provisioning of customer facing services, etc.
• Maintain: Develop a good (early) warning system and system that allows for reliable and quick maintenance tasks, such as library upgrades, version migrations and similar.
• Plan: Develop monitoring and alerting systems that predict capacity needs based on the customer usage patterns. Plan for new service rollouts, expansion of existing services and preparing advice for customers to optimize their resource consumption.
• Respond: Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts and support requests.
• Enhance: Implement new, and update existing security measures for the protection of GitLab infrastructure.
• Collaborate: Work with other engineering stakeholders on resolving larger architectural bottlenecks and participate by offering a large scale operational point of view. Work in close collaboration with software development teams to shape the future roadmap and establish strong operational readiness across teams.

What you’ll bring

• Have experience in running and operating production workloads.
• Have strong programming skills - preferably with Ruby and/or Go.
• Have a strong background with Infrastructure as Code technologies, and libraries powering GitLab, such as Terraform, Ansible. Experience with data templating tools such as Jsonnet would be considered a bonus.
• Are able to reason about large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors.
• Enjoy working with peers and collaborating across teams to deliver unique solutions to various technical challenges.
• Are able to leverage GitLab as your day-to-day go-to tool.
• Have experience regularly interacting with customers, and a focus on resolving their requests with a sense of urgency.

About the team

GitLab’s Dedicated team in which the SRE Environment Automation sits has the mission to create a fully managed, single-tenant GitLab environment, served through a GitLab Dedicated platform. It is developed to remove any manual interactions with customer tenant installations, and to ensure that the customer tenants are fully focused on unlocking the power of The One DevOps Platform.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range

$103,600 - $222,000 USD

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