Senior Professional Services Engineer, PubSec at GitLab

Role overview

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.

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As a Senior Professional Services Engineer, you'll own delivery workstreams on federal engagements in FedRAMP-authorized cloud environments, Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 and 5 enclaves, and fully disconnected networks. You'll install and configure GitLab in classified and air-gapped environments, migrate agencies from legacy tooling, train government technical staff, and advise customers on how GitLab fits their security and compliance posture.

You'll work directly with program managers, engagement managers, Federal account teams, and agency stakeholders. You'll also collaborate with GitLab Product and Engineering when customer requirements don't have a clear answer yet, which happens often in this segment.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law . If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .

Responsibilities

• Lead or deliver technical work for GitLab services for public-sector customers.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, services and customer teams.
• Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
• Translate requirements into maintainable software and service outcomes.

Qualifications

• This role requires an active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI), Full Scope Polygraph clearance and the ability to work in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. This role is currently available only to candidates in the DC Metro area.
• Clear written and verbal communication with mixed technical audiences.
• Contributions to GitLab or other open source projects.
• Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

Technology in this role

• Python: Python Azure Kubernetes Docker .
• Azure: Python Azure Kubernetes Docker .
• Kubernetes: Python Azure Kubernetes Docker .
• Docker: Python Azure Kubernetes Docker .
• Go: Python Azure Kubernetes Docker .
• Ruby: • Scripting experience in Python, Ruby, or .
• Amazon Web Services: • Experience working with major cloud providers, including exposure to government regions such as Amazon Web Services GovCloud, Azure Government, or Google Assured .
• Terraform: • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Puppet, or .
• Ansible: • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Puppet, or .
• Jenkins: • Build and carry out migration plans from Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, and legacy version control systems to GitLab Self-Managed or GitLab Dedicated for .
• CAN: Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting .
• SAML: • Configure GitLab against agency security baselines, including Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guide (DISA STIG) hardening, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-compliant deployments, and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) .

Benefits

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About GitLab

We help government customers deploy and use GitLab in highly controlled environments. We work with engagement managers, Federal account teams, agency stakeholders, and GitLab Product and Engineering to deliver secure implementations, support authorization needs, and turn field findings into better delivery practices and product feedback.

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