Cloud Platform Engineer

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. About the Role We are looking for a skilled Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Runway team. In this role, you will help design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and developer tooling that powers our engineering organization. You will play a key role in advancing our Kubernetes-based platform, maturing our GitOps practices, and driving infrastructure-as-code adoption across the business.

This is a hands-on technical role suited to someone who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and developer experience. Key Responsibilities - Kubernetes Platform Management — Operate, maintain, and improve production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments; manage cluster lifecycle including upgrades, scaling, and reliability. - GitOps & Continuous Delivery — Own and extend our ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows; develop and maintain Application Sets, manage sync policies, and enforce deployment standards across environments. - Infrastructure as Code — Write, review, and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud infrastructure; enforce IaC best practices including module reuse, state management, and drift detection. - Platform Reliability — Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and drive improvements to availability, performance, and observability. - Developer Enablement — Collaborate with application teams to onboard services onto the platform; create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity. - Security & Compliance — Implement RBAC, network policies, secrets management (e. g. , Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator), and ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements. - CI/CD Integration — Integrate platform capabilities with CI pipelines (e. g. , GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton) to support end-to-end delivery workflows. Required Qualifications - 3–5 years of experience in a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE role - Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments (EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred) - Demonstrable experience with ArgoCD or comparable GitOps tooling (Flux, etc.