Cloud Platform Engineer

What you'll do

• Operate production Kubernetes clusters and improve their reliability, availability, and observability.
• Maintain Argo CD GitOps workflows and reusable Terraform modules, including deployment standards and infrastructure state management.
• Partner with application teams on service onboarding, security, CI/CD integration, documentation, and self-service tooling.

What they ask for

• Production Kubernetes operations experience and experience 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, including remote state, workspaces, and module design.
• Ability to write scripts and automation in Python, Bash, or Go.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Helm and networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, ingress, and service mesh concepts.
• Experience with managed, multi-cluster, or multi-region Kubernetes, service meshes, policy as code, observability, Kubernetes-native infrastructure as code, open-source contributions, platform tooling, or relevant certifications.

Pay

$115,000 — $194,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Argo CD, Flux, Terraform, Python

AI focus

GitLab expects team members to incorporate AI into daily workflows as a productivity multiplier; no specific AI engineering work is stated for this role.