Senior Platform Engineer - Gitlab

Senior Platform Engineer

An Insight Global client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the operations team. This is a C1 (Mission-Critical) service serving ~10,000+ engineers with high availability architecture across multiple AWS regions.

The platform is mature and operational. Your primary focus will be maintaining reliability, performing upgrades, managing compliance, and improving automation. You will provide US timezone coverage alongside existing team members, ensuring round-the-clock operational resilience for this critical platform.

What You'll Do:

• Operate and maintain production and pre-production Git Lab environments
• Perform Git Lab version upgrades through the Stage-to-Production pipeline
• Execute system patching, vulnerability remediation, and compliance tasks
• Manage Git Lab Shared Runner infrastructure
• Manage Git Lab Geo replication across primary and secondary sites
• Conduct and maintain disaster recovery exercises and documentation
• Automate secret rotation via Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)
• Maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraform + Git Lab CI)
• Handle SNOW tickets — access requests, pipeline issues, configuration changes
• Monitor service health using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog
• Create and maintain runbooks, documentation, and post-incident reviews