Senior Platform Engineer: CI/CD, GitLab & AKS Architect

calistacorp; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

StraitSys Inc in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the delivery platform used across our enterprise IT organization. The platform relies on self-managed GitLab Ultimate and Azure managed services, including AKS, delivering shared CI/CD templates, security controls, and deployment automation for our containerized microservices.

You will influence the platform architecture, collaborate with developers and infrastructure engineers, and codify

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms.
• Hands-on with GitLab Ultimate, AKS, and Azure services.
• Ability to define security and compliance controls as code.
• Collaborative partner with developers and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Install, upgrade, patch, back up, and restore self-managed GitLab Ultimate and host servers.
• Configure GitLab add-ons and integrations, including identity providers.
• Deploy new GitLab instances across cloud environments and manage code movement between them.
• Design GitLab group/project structure, permissions, and shared templates.
• Build controls enforcing security/compliance using code and merge requests.
• Own shared CI/CD template libraries and onboard services to the platform.
• Define container build standards, multi-stage builds, and image scanning.

Skills

GitLab

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Azure

Security

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Bicep

AKS

Docker

Job description

StraitSys Inc in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the delivery platform used across our enterprise IT organization. The platform relies on self-managed GitLab Ultimate and Azure managed services, including AKS, delivering shared CI/CD templates, security controls, and deployment automation for our containerized microservices.

You will influence the platform architecture, collaborate with developers and infrastructure engineers, and codify