Sr Platform Engineer (GitLab practice)
INflow Federal
- Location
- Onsite (United States)
- Compensation
- $150k - $250k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid Level
About the role
INflow Federal is a defense integrator seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead GitLab practice engagements for federal and defense customers. The role involves administering GitLab environments, leading enterprise migrations, and designing secure CI/CD pipelines.
Skills
Perks
- Remote Work
Full job details
INflow Federal is a defense integrator engineering decision superiority for the Department of War and Intelligence Community. We deliver mission-critical AI/ML, software engineering, digital infrastructure, and cybersecurity capabilities on active DoW and IC programs, with cleared engineers across more than 20 states.
The Role
INflow is standing up a GitLab Professional Services practice as a subcontracting partner to GitLab. As a Senior GitLab DevSecOps Engineer, you will deliver GitLab-scoped engagements for GitLab's enterprise and public sector customers, working alongside the GitLab PS team under GitLab's methodology, on GitLab-managed statements of work.
The work is cleared, customer-facing, and runs against defined scopes. You will install and operate GitLab at enterprise scale, migrate agencies off legacy platforms, design CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, and roll out GitLab Duo and the Duo Agent Platform (DAP) in environments where the mission depends on getting it right the first time.
\n- Administer GitLab Self-Managed and Dedicated environments: install, upgrade, backup and restore, user and group management, runners, Geo replication, and performance tuning.
- Lead enterprise migrations into GitLab from GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or SVN. Use Congregate and direct transfer. Deploy GitLab reference architectures.
- Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, including security scanning (SAST, DAST, dependency, container) and compliance framework integration.
- Configure and roll out the GitLab Duo Agent Platform (DAP): build and customize agents and flows, enable AI-assisted development workflows, and advise customers on governance and adoption.
- Deliver customer-facing advisory, clear documentation, and knowledge transfer to agency teams. Lead workshops, cutovers, and secure-environment deployments.
- Operate against defined SOWs with GitLab managing the customer relationship. Scope, estimate, and ship work on schedule.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or platform engineering.
- Hands-on GitLab administration experience in production (Self-Managed or Dedicated).
- Experience designing, running, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale.
- Strong consulting instincts: clear written and verbal communication, ability to lead a customer meeting, and discipline working to a defined scope.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites for workshops, cutovers, and secure facilities.
- Active GitLab certifications (GitLab Certified Associate, Professional, or Services Engineer).
- Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform in production.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure in a DevSecOps context.
- Prior work on federal, defense, or intelligence community programs.
- Experience with GitLab Duo, DAP, agentic AI, or AI-assisted development adoption.
- Experience with security scanning toolchains, STIG compliance, or cATO frameworks.
- Direct GitLab enablement, training on GitLab PS delivery methods and tooling, and a defined path to GitLab certifications.
- Work on cleared, high-impact engagements across DoW, IC, and civilian federal customers.
- The opportunity to build INflow's GitLab practice from the ground up as a founding member.
Note: this role requires an active DoD clearance held directly by the candidate at the time of application. Top Secret preferred. Candidates without an active clearance will not be considered.