Cloud Native Engineers at GitLab work with our Distributionteam to create and maintain a Cloud Native GitLab deployment, along with all associated upgrade and release management methods.

Requirements

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production use cases
• Chef experience (writing complex cookbooks from scratch, custom providers, custom resources, etc.)
• Extensive Linux experience, comfortable between Debian and RHEL based systems
• Running applications at scale in Kubernetes
• Transforming existing applications to cloud native oriented applications
• Designing, building and packaging cloud native applications
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• English written and verbal communication skills
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Deploying, building, and configuring deployment methods of GitLab for Kubernetes
• Promoting best practices for development and deployment in a Cloud Native environment
• Keep current with new technologies and developments in the Cloud Native space
• Constantly improve product quality, security, and performance
• Write good code
• Catch bugs and style issues in code reviews
• Ship small features independently