Senior Professional Services Technical Architect - Security

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible PTO

Equity/Stock options

Growth and development fund

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Professional Services Technical Architect, Security to design secure enterprise solutions for AMER clients. You will assess architectures, guide migration of CI/CD tooling, and implement GitLab security capabilities to meet frameworks such as NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, and SOC 2.

You will collaborate with engineers, engagement managers, and program managers, providing technical leadership across the engagement lifecycle from pre-sales to delivery and enablement.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering secure enterprise architectures across cloud and DevSecOps.
• Proven ability to migrate CI/CD platforms with security controls.
• Ability to advise on GitLab SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployments for security/compliance.
• Hands-on with Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Knowledge of GitLab security scanning (SAST, DAST, dependencies, secrets, container).
• Experience migrating security tooling to GitLab security scanners.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead secure GitLab implementations for Professional Services client engagements.
• Advise on architecture choices for security/compliance in SaaS, self-managed, or dedicated deployments.
• Lead technical discovery to align security needs with implementation plans.
• Coordinate security tool migrations to GitLab security scanners and validate results.
• Support scoping, SOWs, and pre-sales planning with Engagement Managers.
• Mentor teams and create security-focused enablement materials.
• Partner with Training, Support, and Product teams to deliver engagements.

Skills

Secure enterprise architectures

CI/CD security integration

GitLab security tooling

Ansible & Terraform

Security tool migrations

Security governance & risk

SAST/DAST/Dependency/Secret scanning

Migration planning & validation

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Snyk

Checkmarx

Veracode

SonarQube

GitGuardian

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As a Senior Professional Services Technical Architect, Security at GitLab, you'll lead the design and implementation of secure enterprise solutions for Professional Services clients across AMER. You'll assess complex security architectures, guide security tool and CI/CD migrations, including legacy tools such as Jenkins, and implement GitLab security capabilities to help customers meet compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, and SOC 2. This role requires depth in secure reference architecture design across cloud security, identity management, vulnerability management, and deployment choices such as GitLab SaaS and Self-Managed, as well as the judgment to translate that depth for engineering and executive audiences.

Working closely with Professional Services Engineers, Engagement Managers, and Program Managers, you'll provide technical leadership throughout the Professional Services engagement lifecycle, from pre-sales security scoping through delivery and enablement.

What you'll do

• Design and lead secure GitLab solution implementations for Professional Services client engagements, including security risk assessments and threat modeling.
• Advise customers on GitLab SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated architecture choices in light of their security and compliance requirements.
• Lead technical discovery to understand customer security, compliance, and infrastructure needs, and use that insight to guide implementation plans and deliverables.
• Lead migrations from legacy source code management and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tooling, including application security tools such as Snyk, Checkmarx, Veracode, SonarQube, and GitGuardian, to GitLab CI/CD and GitLab security scanners.
• Support Professional Services Engagement Managers with security-related statements of work (SOWs), sales scoping, and pre-sales planning.
• Coordinate security implementation work across cross-functional teams and share customer needs with GitLab Product teams to inform security features and roadmap decisions.
• Mentor Professional Services and partner consultants, and create security-focused delivery kits, documentation, training materials, case studies, and enablement sessions.
• Partner with Training, Support, Customer Success, and Professional Services Program Managers to plan and deliver engagements.

What you\'ll bring

Technical expertise

• Experience delivering secure enterprise architectures across application security, cloud security, secure cloud infrastructure, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience migrating source code management and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms with security controls.
• Experience advising on GitLab SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment tradeoffs for security and compliance needs.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code tooling, including Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of GitLab security scanning capabilities, including Advanced Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Dependency Scanning, Secret Detection, and Container Scanning.
• Experience migrating application security tooling, including Snyk, Checkmarx, Veracode, SonarQube, and GitGuardian, to GitLab Security Scanners.
• Experience planning and executing security tool migrations, mapping findings between platforms, managing dismissed and accepted risk findings, and building migration validation frameworks.

Security and compliance

• Knowledge of security frameworks and standards, including ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, SOC 2, GDPR, and FedRAMP.
• Understanding of current security threats, including supply chain security, generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) security risks, and zero-trust architecture.
• Working knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and how these risks apply to AI-assisted development tools such as GitLab Duo.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in an all-remote, asynchronous environment.

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.

The base salary range for this role's listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. 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.

United States Salary Range

$164,880 — $277,560 USD

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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.

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