Senior System Administrator

Senior GitLab Administrator

A senior-level administrator responsible for overseeing the implementation and management of GitLab within an organization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with GitLab administration, including installation, configuration, and management of GitLab on servers. They will also possess strong infrastructure assessment and implementation skills, as well as expertise in integration and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Assessment and Implementation: Assess the current infrastructure to determine the requirements for implementing GitLab, collaborate with internal and external teams to understand Enterprise Architecture and Security standards, and provide designs and implementations based on those.
• GitLab Installation and Management: Install, configure, and manage GitLab on servers, leveraging Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code tools to set up and configure required infrastructure.
• Integration and Security: Integrate GitLab with existing tools and services used by the corporation, configure and manage security settings and access controls for GitLab.
• CICD Pipeline Management: 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 and Monitoring: Monitor and troubleshoot any issues with GitLab infrastructure.
• Documentation and Best Practices: Develop and maintain documentation for GitLab setup and usage within the enterprise, implement best practices for version control, code review, and collaboration using GitLab.
• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with development teams to ensure successful adoption of GitLab, recommend best practices around Microsoft Azure and assist with ad-hoc Azure DevOps queries.
• Automation and Orchestration: Implement scripts and routines to automate mundane and error-prone tasks, provision and orchestrate container workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts.
• Security and Compliance: Create security and compliance policies on GitLab reflecting departmental policies, configure backups and create disaster recovery plans for our GitLab platform.
• Deployment and Monitoring: Implement deployment pipelines with incremental delivery capabilities, install and enable advanced search capabilities on GitLab, set up monitoring and alerting for our GitLab platform.
• Security Hardening and Data Retention: Perform security hardening of our GitLab instance based on best practices, configure data retention policies for GitLab.
• Standard Operating Procedures: Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) regarding OS and GitLab instance patching, contribute to deployment operations ensuring that artefacts have been deployed to the various environments successfully.
• Encryption and Webhooks: Set up encryption of databases and other software artefacts, create webhooks which perform administrative tasks on the platform.
• GitLab Runner and DevOps: Set up the required GitLab Runner infrastructure and ensure that automated scaling is in place, contribute and participate in all DevOps initiatives within the organization.

Requirements:

• Proven experience with GitLab administration, including installation, configuration, and management of GitLab on servers.
• Strong infrastructure assessment and implementation skills, including knowledge of Enterprise Architecture and Security standards.
• Expertise in integration and security, including experience with existing tools and services used by the corporation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline management, including experience with GitLab CI/CD and Azure DevOps.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including experience working closely with development teams.
• Ability to develop and maintain documentation for GitLab setup and usage within the enterprise.
• Experience with automation and orchestration, including implementation of scripts and routines to automate mundane and error-prone tasks.
• Knowledge of security and compliance policies, including creation of security and compliance policies on GitLab reflecting departmental policies.