Platform Engineer (remote work)

About the role

CloudLinux builds Linux infrastructure and security products. You will join the Automation Management Services cell to own a set of platform services, keep them reliable, automate recurring work, and support other teams with observability, GitLab, and CI runners. The role blends platform engineering, incident response, and enabling self service for engineers.

What you'll do

• Run and maintain the observability platform, manage onboarding, cost, capacity, and alerting.
• Operate GitLab and the CI runner fleet, including upgrades, capacity, access, backups and restore drills.
• Keep other services healthy with monitoring and runbooks, deploy new services as requested.
• Design and deploy new services as code, ensure they are monitored, backed up, and documented.
• Handle developer requests, turn recurring tasks into self service, and write user friendly runbooks.
• Run incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement prevention or detection improvements.

What they're looking for

• Senior level experience in infrastructure, platform or site reliability engineering with at least one production service you owned.
• Linux systems administration and debugging on bare metal and virtual machines; non Kubernetes heavy environment.
• GitLab administration in production, with GitLab CI experience; other CI systems acceptable with depth.
• Infrastructure as code experience using Ansible and Terraform or OpenTofu; changes reviewed in merge requests.
• Prometheus and Grafana experience including alert rules and dashboards; strong reading of PromQL.
• Strong written and spoken English, with ability to explain technical concepts to engineers outside your team.

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing states eligibility worldwide, and the company is fully remote; no specific country restrictions are stated beyond worldwide eligibility.
• Timezone requirements are not stated; confirm during interview.
• Pay currency or range is not specified; confirm during interview.
• Contractor vs employee status is not specified; confirm during interview.
• Visa or work-authorization notes are not specified; confirm during interview.