Desired Skills and Experience
- Be on a PagerDuty rotation to respond to GitLab.com availability incidents and
- provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
- Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from ever happening.
- Manage our infrastructure with Chef, Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.
- Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
- Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible.
- Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow GitLab scaling to support hundred of thousands of concurrent users.
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
- Plan the growth of GitLab’s infrastructure.
- Think about systems - edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations.
- Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
- Know what is the use of config management systems like Chef (the one we use)
- Have strong programming skills - Ruby and/or Go
- Have an urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously.
- Have an urge to document all the things so you don’t need to learn the same thing twice.
- Have a proactive, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can’t help but fix it.
- Have an urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast.
- Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
- Coding infrastructure automation with Chef
- Improving our Prometheus Monitoring or building new Metrics
- Helping release managers deploy and troubleshoot new versions of GitLab-EE.
- Migrate GitLab.com from it’s current home on Azure Cloud to Google Cloud Platform.
- Migrate GitLab.com to Kubernetes.
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