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# Sr. Devops Engineer - GitLab -Remote

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Athol, MA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Linux, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Google Cloud, Gitlab, Jenkins
- **Published:** May 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g1ry9o

## About the Role

* 8+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering

 * Expert-level experience with GitLab (self-hosted or GitLab Premium/Ultimate)

 * Proven ability to tune pipelines, runners, repo storage, and GitLab HA deployments at scale

 * Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux, networking, and AWS/Azure/GCP infrastructure

 * Scripting and automation experience (Bash, Python, or equivalent)

 * Ability to diagnose root-cause issues rather than applying temporary fixes

 * Experience supporting multiple development teams using shared tooling * Nice to have (not required): experience supporting Jira, Jenkins, or other dev tooling

## Description

Insight Global is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in GitLab and GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines. You will own the stability, performance, and evolution of our GitLab platform used by multiple development teams, while mentoring an existing infrastructure group and reducing reliance on external vendor support.

Responsibilities

 * Administer, monitor, and optimize self-hosted GitLab (repos, runners, pipelines, storage, upgrades, licensing, security)

 * Diagnose and resolve performance issues such as repo bloat, runner saturation, pipeline inefficiency, and storage bottlenecks

 * Implement usage analytics, capacity forecasting, and platform-level observability for GitLab

 * Create documentation, runbooks, and training to upskill internal teams and standardize best practices

 * Lead modernization efforts around GitLab scalability, HA, backup/restore strategy, and security hardening

 * Reduce dependency on vendor escalations by building internal troubleshooting maturity


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