inflowfed - INflow Federal - Sr Platform Engineer (GitLab practice)

Remote3w ago

Remote Senior WW Cloud Computing Public Sector Platform Engineer Associate Performance Management Scope Management Kubernetes Terraform GCP

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or platform engineering. • Hands-on GitLab administration experience in production (Self-Managed or Dedicated). • Experience designing, running, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale. • Strong consulting instincts: clear written and verbal communication, ability to lead a customer meeting, and discipline working to a defined scope. • Willingness to travel to customer sites for workshops, cutovers, and secure facilities. • Active GitLab certifications (GitLab Certified Associate, Professional, or Services Engineer). • Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform in production. • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure in a DevSecOps context. • Prior work on federal, defense, or intelligence community programs. • Experience with GitLab Duo, DAP, agentic AI, or AI-assisted development adoption. • Experience with security scanning toolchains, STIG compliance, or cATO frameworks. • ## What You'll Get: • Direct GitLab enablement, training on GitLab PS delivery methods and tooling, and a defined path to GitLab certifications. • Work on cleared, high-impact engagements across DoW, IC, and civilian federal customers. • Minimum of a DoD Secret clearance is required. Top Secret highly desired. Note: this role requires an active DoD clearance held directly by the candidate at the time of application. Top Secret preferred. Candidates without an active clearance will not be considered.

Responsibilities

• Administer GitLab Self-Managed and Dedicated environments: install, upgrade, backup and restore, user and group management, runners, Geo replication, and performance tuning. • Lead enterprise migrations into GitLab from GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or SVN. Use Congregate and direct transfer. Deploy GitLab reference architectures. • Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, including security scanning (SAST, DAST, dependency, container) and compliance framework integration. • Configure and roll out the GitLab Duo Agent Platform (DAP): build and customize agents and flows, enable AI-assisted development workflows, and advise customers on governance and adoption. • Deliver customer-facing advisory, clear documentation, and knowledge transfer to agency teams. Lead workshops, cutovers, and secure-environment deployments. • Operate against defined SOWs with GitLab managing the customer relationship. Scope, estimate, and ship work on schedule.