Senior Git Administration Professional

The role of Senior GitLab Admin is a senior-level position that requires expertise in GitLab administration. This professional will oversee the implementation, configuration, and management of the platform.

This position involves assessing the current infrastructure, collaborating with internal and external teams, installing and configuring GitLab on servers, integrating with existing tools and services, and managing security settings and access controls.

• Infrastructure Assessment: The candidate must assess the current infrastructure to determine the requirements for implementing GitLab.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborate with internal and external teams to better understand Enterprise Architecture and Security standards and provide designs and implementations based on those.
• GitLab Configuration: Install, configure, and manage GitLab on the bank's servers.
• Configuration Management: Leverage Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code tools to set up and configure required infrastructure.
• Integration: Integrate GitLab with existing tools and services used by the corporation.
• Security Management: Configure and manage security settings and access controls for GitLab.
• CICD Pipeline Implementation: Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and Azure DevOps.
• Training and Support: Provide training and support to team members and engineers on using GitLab effectively. Assist with the development of training materials.
• Troubleshooting: Monitor and troubleshoot any issues with GitLab infrastructure.
• Best Practices: Implement best practices for version control, code review, and collaboration using GitLab.
• Adoption Support: Work closely with development teams to ensure successful adoption of GitLab.
• Documentation: Develop and maintain documentation for GitLab setup and usage within the enterprise.
• Recommendations: Recommend best practices around Microsoft Azure, GitLab and assist with ad-hoc Azure DevOps queries.
• Automation: Implement scripts and routines to automate mundane and error-prone tasks.
• Container Orchestration: Provision and orchestrate container workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts. Provision, configure and maintain AKS clusters following best practices.
• Instance Management: Manage Windows and Linux instances as required.
• Infrastructure Troubleshooting: Perform troubleshooting of issues on infrastructure.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the team to tackle asks based on priority and requirements.
• Advanced Security Features: Try and enable advanced security features such as DAST and API Fuzzing.
• Policies: Create security and compliance policies on GitLab which reflect departmental policies.
• Backup and Disaster Recovery: Configure backups and create disaster recovery plans for our GitLab platform.
• SAML Authentication: Implement Single Sign On authentication and configure email delivery capabilities.
• Data Migration: Perform migration of all data from our previous GitLab Self-Managed instance to the new one.
• Pipeline Deployment: Implement deployment pipelines with incremental delivery capabilities (such as blue-green deployments).
• Search Capabilities: Install and enable advanced search capabilities on GitLab.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Set up monitoring and alerting for our GitLab platform.
• Security Hardening: Perform security hardening of our GitLab instance based on best practices.
• Data Retention Policies: Configure data retention policies for GitLab.
• Standard Operating Procedures: Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) regarding OS and GitLab instance patching.
• Deployment Operations: Contribute to deployment operations, ensuring that artefacts have been deployed to the various environments successfully and all required documentation has been vetted and stored to our corporate systems based on IT Development and Deployment SOPs.
• Database Encryption: Set up encryption of databases and other software artefacts.
• Webhooks: Create webhooks which perform administrative tasks on the platform.
• Runner Infrastructure: Set up the required GitLab Runner infrastructure and ensure that automated scaling is in place.
• DevOps Initiatives: Contribute and participate in all DevOps initiatives within the organization.