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# Senior Systems Engineer - GitLab Administration (Hybrid- San Diego, CA or Kirkland, WA)

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $144,914.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, CentOS, Cloud Computing, Domain Name System (DNS), Python (Programming Language), Network Troubleshooting, PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, Nginx, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Prometheus, Service Pack, Policy as Code, Transport Layer Security, Load Balancing, System Availability, Grafana, Mttr, Backend, Gitlab, Build Management, Kubernetes, Puppet, Splunk, Artifactory
- **Published:** July 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us7541f8867bdb139757eb6e94aeda9f93

## About the Role

* 5+ years of operating enterprise-scale platforms
 * 3+ years of GitLab self-managed administration with Geo and HA
 * 3+ years of Artifactory administration with Hub/Edge architectures
 * 2+ years of operational Kubernetes experience with Helm or Helmfile
 * 5+ years of Linux administration experience with RHEL or CentOS
 * PostgreSQL HA cluster management experience; Patroni preferred
 * Experience with load balancers such as F5 or NGINX, DNS, TLS, and network troubleshooting
 * Monitoring experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
 * Automation experience with Ansible, Puppet, Python, and Bash
 * Experience with CI/CD pipelines and artifact promotion
 * FedRAMP IL4 or IL5 experience preferred
 * Bachelor's degree.

Preferred

 * JFrog Xray and GitOps experience, including ArgoCD or Flux
 * Supply chain security experience, including SBOMs and image signing
 * Policy-as-code experience with OPA
 * Cloud platform experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP

## Description

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer for a large, global B2B high-tech company. In this role, you will operate GitLab and Artifactory platforms with high availability across multiple datacenters. You will execute upgrades, security patching, and infrastructure modernization with minimal downtime.
This is a 12-month contract (Extension possible), 40 hours per week, hybrid role, 2-3 days onsite at client's office in San Diego, CA or Kirkland, WA.
This is a W2 employee of Stage 4 Solutions. Health benefits and 401K are offered.
Responsibilities:

 * Operate GitLab and Artifactory platforms with high availability across multiple datacenters
 * Execute upgrades, security patching, and infrastructure modernization with minimal downtime
 * Manage GitLab Geo replication, PostgreSQL HA clusters, and Artifactory Hub/Edge architectures
 * Build observability dashboards using Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk, and establish SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
 * Implement GitOps patterns and support Kubernetes migrations
 * Develop automation for self-healing and automated remediation
 * Collaborate cross-functionally on migrations and architecture decisions
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