Sr. Consultant

Must Have Skills:

• Hands-on experience deploying GitLab Omnibus in production.
  
• In-depth knowledge of GitLab components: Gitaly, Praefect, PostgreSQL, Redis, Registry
  
• Experience with PostgreSQL HA using Patroni, etcd, PgBouncer, HAProxy.
  
• Expertise in provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
  
• Strong understanding of VM-based architectures (e.g., VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V).
  
• Object storage integration using MinIO or S3-compatible services.
  
• GitLab Geo setup and synchronization troubleshooting.
  
• Network-level expertise: firewalls, VIPs, load balancing, inter-site routing.
  
• CI/CD configuration, runners, token management, and access control.
  

Nice to Have Skills:

• Familiarity with Ansible or other configuration management tools 
  
• Monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana 
  
• Understanding of DNS-based failover vs. HAProxy-based 
  
• Experience with air-gapped or security-hardened environments
  

Detailed Job Description ;

• Architect and deploy GitLab using Omnibus packages on VMs with full HA configuration.
  
• Set up and maintain GitLab Geo replication between Site A (primary) and Site B (backup).
  
• Configure PostgreSQL HA clusters using Patroni, etcd, PgBouncer, and HAProxy
  
• Implement and manage Gitaly Clusters with Praefect for repository sharding and HA
  
• Set up MinIO as an on-prem object storage backend with bucket-level replication
  
• Configure and isolate Redis as non-replicated, cold standby at Geo secondary site
  
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform.
  
• Integrate GitLab with internal DNS, firewall, and networking services for HA & DR readiness.
  
• Configure and manage GitLab Runners with appropriate executor strategies using k8.
  
• Develop and execute backup, restore, and failover testing procedures.
  
• Create detailed architecture documentation and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  

Minimum Years of Experience : 7- 8 years