Cloud Platform Engineer
About The Position
As a Cloud Platform Engineer on the Runway team, you will design, build, and maintain infrastructure and developer tooling that powers GitLab’s engineering organization. The role advances a Kubernetes-based platform, matures GitOps practices, and expands infrastructure as code adoption. It combines hands-on infrastructure, automation, and developer experience work to help application teams deploy and operate their services. The Runway team builds and maintains infrastructure and developer tooling for GitLab’s engineering organization, centering its work on a Kubernetes-based platform, GitOps delivery practices, and infrastructure as code. The team collaborates with application teams to onboard services and improve developer productivity through documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling. GitLab’s roles are remote, though some may have location-based eligibility requirements.
Requirements
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production and working with at least one major cloud provider: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with Argo CD or comparable GitOps tooling, such as Flux.
- Proficiency in Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning, including remote state, workspaces, and module design.
- Ability to write scripts and automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, ingress, and service mesh concepts.
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to document systems and collaborate across teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with managed, multi-cluster, or multi-region Kubernetes.
- Experience with service meshes, policy as code, observability, or Kubernetes-native infrastructure as code.
- Open source or platform tooling contributions.
- Relevant certifications.
Responsibilities
- Operate and improve production Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments, managing upgrades, scaling, and reliability throughout the cluster lifecycle.
- Own and extend Argo CD-based GitOps workflows, maintaining ApplicationSets, managing sync policies, and enforcing deployment standards across environments.
- Write, review, and maintain reusable Terraform modules, with clear practices for state management and drift detection.
- Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and improve availability, performance, and observability.
- Collaborate with application teams to onboard services, and create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity.
- Implement role-based access control, network policies, and secrets management to meet infrastructure security and compliance requirements.
- Integrate platform capabilities with CI/CD pipelines to support end-to-end delivery workflows.
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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