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An overview of this role

As a member of the Infrastructure Security Team within the Product Security Department you will work with teams across GitLab to ensure that the components that comprise our public cloud infrastructure are built from the beginning with the resiliency and security expectations that our customers depend on to power their DevSecOps goals.

We’re looking for an Intermediate Infrastructure Security Engineer to further our automation efforts in support of our upcoming GitLab Dedicated for Government product offering. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to tooling that operates our FedRAMP environment, identify and develop remediations for infrastructure vulnerabilities, and partner with senior engineers to review upcoming project architectures to ensure that they are built to the rigorous standards we hold.

What you’ll do in this role:

• Support security teams as an Infrastructure SME
• Identify and help mitigate security issues, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities related to GitLab’s cloud, container and Kubernetes infrastructure
• Build tooling to increase our visibility into environments to expedite vulnerability detection
• Document best practices and remediations to help engineers learn from common vulnerability types
• Partner with senior engineers to review new architectures and projects and provide feedback cross-functionally
• Fulfill the Product Security Division Mission of securing GitLab Infrastructure with our own product (“dogfooding”)

You should apply if you bring:

• Hands-on experience with public cloud providers (ex. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Development experience with Ruby, Python, Go
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (ex. Terraform, Ansible, Chef)
• Knowledge of the Linux operating system
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
• An interest in Information Security
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency to communicate over a text-based medium (Slack, GitLab Issues, Email) and can succinctly document technical details
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role. Our hiring process for this Infrastructure Security Engineer position typically follows four stages. The details of this process and our leveling structure can be found on our job family page.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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