Senior Platform Engineer – GitLab & JFrog Artifactory

HonorVet Technologies (SDVOSB) is a certified veteran-owned staffing and workforce solutions company recognized for its industry certifications, commitment to quality talent acquisition, and excellence in delivering IT, healthcare, federal, state, and SLED (State, Local, and Education) staffing services, helping organizations build reliable, compliant, and high-performing teams across mission-critical sectors.

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer – GitLab & JFrog Artifactory
Location: Kirkland, Washington 98033
Duration: 12 Months

Overview:
Senior Systems Engineer role operating ServiceNow''s critical developer platforms: enterprise GitLab (3,000+ users) and JFrog Artifactory across commercial and regulated market environments. Work independently on complex infrastructure challenges and drive operational excellence.

What You Will Do:

• Operate GitLab and Artifactory platforms with high availability across multiple datacenters
• Execute upgrades, security patching, and infrastructure modernization with minimal downtime
• Manage GitLab Geo replication, PostgreSQL HA clusters, and Artifactory Hub/Edge architectures
• Build observability dashboards using Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk, and establish SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Implement GitOps patterns and support Kubernetes migrations
• Develop automation for self-healing and automated remediation
• Collaborate cross-functionally on migrations and architecture decisions
• Participate in an on-call rotation and drive MTTR reduction

Skills Required

• BS in computer science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years operating enterprise-scale platforms
• 3+ years of GitLab self-managed administration with Geo and HA
• 3+ years of Artifactory administration with Hub/Edge architectures
• 2+ years of operational Kubernetes experience with Helm or Helmfile
• 5+ years of Linux administration experience with RHEL or CentOS
• PostgreSQL HA cluster management experience; Patroni preferred
• Experience with load balancers such as F5 or NGINX, DNS, TLS, and network troubleshooting
• Monitoring experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
• Automation experience with Ansible, Puppet, Python, and Bash
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and artifact promotion
• FedRAMP IL4 or IL5 experience preferred
• Strong collaboration skills and a continuous learning mindset

Preferred
JFrog Xray and GitOps experience, including ArgoCD or Flux
Supply chain security experience, including SBOMs and image signing
Policy-as-code experience with OPA
Cloud platform experience across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform