Platform/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implement and deploy a self-hosted Renovate environment, including containers, workers, and job orchestration.
• Automate repository discovery and onboarding across tens of thousands of GitLab repositories using the GitLab API.
• Develop and maintain central, version-controlled Renovate configuration presets and enable repository-level customisation.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and reporting dashboards covering repository coverage, update throughput, and error rates.
• Optimise system performance through parallelisation, caching, rate-limit management, and robust error handling.
• Integrate artifact and container registries with secure credential and secrets management solutions.
• Automate and streamline operational processes to ensure stable and reliable day-to-day operation.
• Prepare operational documentation and runbooks and provide technical support to development teams throughout the rollout.
• Support the phased rollout of the solution, from pilot implementation through to full-scale adoption.

Requirements:

• Solid professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Automation Engineer, or in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of GitLab CI/CD and practical experience working with the GitLab API.
• Hands-on experience with containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code, such as OpenTofu and Helm.
• Good scripting or programming skills in Bash, Python, JavaScript, and/or TypeScript.
• Experience with monitoring and observability solutions, preferably New Relic.
• Knowledge of secrets management solutions such as Vault.
• Experience working with package and container registries.
• Practical experience with Renovate and automated dependency management.
• Strong automation mindset with a focus on scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Ability to work independently in a structured and solution-oriented manner.
• Good English communication skills.

Advantages:

• Experience operating Renovate at large scale, particularly across thousands or tens of thousands of repositories.
• Experience designing highly scalable GitLab-based platform solutions.
• Experience with GitLab Runner, distributed workers, job scheduling, or similar orchestration solutions.
• Experience with GitLab API automation and large-scale repository onboarding.
• Knowledge of dependency management and software supply-chain security.
• Experience with CVE-driven security updates and automated vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with additional secrets management, artifact management, or container registry technologies.
• Experience designing observability dashboards and operational KPIs for platform environments.
• Experience working in large enterprise or multinational environments.