Devops Engineer: II (Intermediate) - NA

he platform is mature and operational. Your primary focus will be maintaining reliability, performing upgrades, managing compliance, and improving automation. You will provide US timezone coverage alongside existing team members, ensuring round-the-clock operational resilience for this critical platform. What You'll Do Operate and maintain production and pre-production GitLab environments Perform GitLab version upgrades through the Stage-to-Production pipeline Execute system patching, vulnerability remediation, and compliance tasks Manage GitLab Shared Runner infrastructure Manage GitLab Geo replication across primary and secondary sites Conduct and maintain disaster recovery exercises and documentation Automate secret rotation via Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Terraform + GitLab CI) Handle SNOW tickets access requests, pipeline issues, configuration changes Monitor service health using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog Participate in on-call rotation with peer engineers Create and maintain runbooks, documentation, and post-incident reviews Required Qualifications 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or production platform operations Strong GitLab administration experience installation, configuration, upgrades, Geo replication, backup/restore at scale Linux systems administration (RHEL/CentOS) Infrastructure as Code proficiency Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines Monitoring and observability experience Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent Containerization and orchestration Docker/Podman and Kubernetes/OpenShift Incident management experience on-call, incident response, root cause analysis Networking fundamentals DNS, load balancing, VPN, firewall rules Strong documentation skills Preferred Qualifications GitLab Geo replication operations and troubleshooting Enterprise compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, or equivalent; CLIENT ESS/PIA/SIA a plus) IAM integration (SSO/SAML, LDAP) High-availability architecture design and operations CLIENT or IBM enterprise environment experience Datadog monitoring platform AWS infrastructure operations Key Stakeholders ALM/DEP Platform ownership, priority alignment InfoSec SOC monitoring, incident response, vulnerability remediation IT-IAM User provisioning, SSO integration Engineering teams Thousands of users relying on platform availability PCO/Ops Infrastructure, networking, AWS account management Platform State GitLab 10k reference architecture with high availability Geo replication across multiple AWS regions Automated deployment via Ansible/Terraform + GitLab CI Monitoring: Prometheus + Grafana + Datadog C1 Mission-Critical service This Role Is NOT A build-from-scratch project the infrastructure is mature and well-documented A pure development role this is infrastructure operations A solo position you join an existing team of engineers A user support role you manage the platform, not individual project workflows Interview Process TA Screen Recruiter conversation, logistics, and fit Manager Interview Motivation, expectations, team fit, and competency evaluation Technical Interview (1 1.5h) Deep dive into relevant technical skills with scenario-based questions Competencies Evaluated Motivation What drives you? What do you expect from this role? RH Multiplier How do you share knowledge and lift others? Influence How do you drive alignment across teams? EEO: Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.