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.