Senior GitLab Engineer

1 hour agoSenior Helsinki, Finland or London, UK Hybrid Full Time Devops Jobs by Verda

Verda

Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.

Series BRecently funded

Helsinki, Finland

Funding history

Series B and additional investment ($189M)2026 funding round extension (revised total)Equity and debt financing extension

Investors

Skaala byfounders Nordea 6 Degrees Capital (6DC)Emergence Capital

About Verda

Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.

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Skills

Ansible Automation Backup Bash Ci/Cd Gitaly Gitlab Gitlab Runner Gitops Grafana Helm Kubernetes Linux Monitoring Postgresql Prometheus Python Recovery Redis Salt Sidekiq Sso Terraform

Candidate Availability

Hybrid · Helsinki, London · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will own the self-managed GitLab service from configuration and upgrades through reliability, security, recovery, and roadmap planning. You will operate shared CI runners, automate administration, monitor service health, test changes safely, document procedures, and train backup owners.

Requirements

Several years of experience running self-managed GitLab in production
Knowledge of GitLab components including Rails, Sidekiq, Gitaly, PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage
Experience with GitLab reference architectures and high-availability designs
Experience running GitLab Runner at scale
Linux and infrastructure-as-code skills
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Bash, Python, or similar tools
Experience with Prometheus-compatible monitoring and Grafana

Responsibilities

Own GitLab configuration, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and roadmap
Design a highly available and resilient GitLab architecture
Set up and test backups and restores for repositories, databases, configuration, and secrets
Build and operate the shared CI runner fleet
Monitor GitLab health, performance, storage, and capacity
Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term fixes
Test changes in staging, apply security releases, and maintain rollback plans
Configure SSO, group-based access, tokens, service accounts, and audit logs
Automate administration with GitLab APIs and CLI
Write runbooks and train backup owners

Benefits

Equity compensation
Local benefits