Gitlab Administrator

Senior Gitlab Administrator
Assess the current infrastructure and determine the requirements for implementing GitLab.Collaborate and liaise with internal and external teams to better understand Enterprise Architecture and Security standards and provide designs and implementations based on those.Install, configure, and manage GitLab on the bank’s servers.Leverage Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code tools to set up and configure required infrastructure.Integrate GitLab with existing tools and services used by the corporation.Configure and manage security settings and access controls for GitLab.Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and Azure DevOps.Provide training and support to team members and engineers on using GitLab effectively. Assist with the development of training materials.Monitor and troubleshoot any issues with GitLab infrastructure.Implement best practices for version control, code review, and collaboration using GitLab.Work closely with development teams to ensure successful adoption of GitLab.Develop and maintain documentation for GitLab setup and usage within the enterprise.Recommend best practices around Microsoft Azure, GitLab and assist with ad-hoc Azure DevOps queries.Implement scripts and routines to automate mundane and error-prone tasks.Provision and orchestrate container workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts. Provision, configure and maintain AKS clusters following best practices.Manage Windows and Linux instances as required.Perform troubleshooting of issues on infrastructure.Collaborate closely with the team to tackle tasks based on priority and requirements.Try and enable advanced security features such as DAST and API Fuzzing.Create security and compliance policies on GitLab which reflect departmental policies.Configure backups and create disaster recovery plans for our GitLab platform.Implement Single Sign On authentication and configure email delivery capabilities.Perform migration of all data from our previous GitLab Self-Managed instance to the new one.Implement deployment pipelines with incremental delivery capabilities (such as blue- green deployments).Install and enable advanced search capabilities on GitLab.Set up monitoring and alerting for our GitLab platform.Perform security hardening of our GitLab instance based on best practices.Configure data retention policies for GitLab.Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) regarding OS and GitLab instance patching.Contribute to deployment operations, ensuring that artefacts have been deployed to the various environments successfully and all requireddocumentation has been vetted and stored to our corporate systems based on IT Development and Deployment SOPs.Set up encryption of databases and other software artefacts.Create webhooks which perform administrative tasks on the platform.Set up the required GitLab Runner infrastructure and ensure that automated scaling is in place. Contribute and participate in all DevOps initiatives within the organization.