Remote Senior Migration Engineer — Enterprise Cloud Migrations

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 153,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Employee Resource Groups

Equity compensation & ESPP

Growth and development fund

Parental leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Migration Engineer for GitLab Dedicated to plan and deliver migrations from self-managed GitLab to GitLab Dedicated. You will leverage GitLab Geo to replicate data and guide customers through cutover and validation in a largely remote environment.

You will design runbooks and automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve tooling and deliver repeatable migrations across multiple engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering customer-facing migration, installation, training, or technical advisory engagements.
• Experience with infrastructure as code or configuration as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Puppet, or Chef.
• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes workloads in production and debugging issues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver customer migrations from initial assessment through planning, replication, cutover, and post-migration validation.
• Use GitLab Geo to replicate customer data, debug synchronization issues, identify root causes, and keep migrations on track.
• Design customer network connectivity within GitLab Dedicated constraints, including VPCs, private connectivity, DNS, and firewall rules.
• Improve migration tooling, scripts, and runbooks to make delivery more reliable and repeatable.

Skills

GitLab

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Ruby

English communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

Puppet

Chef

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Migration Engineer for GitLab Dedicated to plan and deliver migrations from self-managed GitLab to GitLab Dedicated. You will leverage GitLab Geo to replicate data and guide customers through cutover and validation in a largely remote environment.

You will design runbooks and automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve tooling and deliver repeatable migrations across multiple engagements.