Cloud System Engineer III

About this role

About the Opportunity

The Cloud System Engineer III will serve as the GitLab CI/CD Subject Matter Expert, designing and optimizing secure, scalable pipelines that support application development and deployment within a modern AWS environment in a remote work arrangement. The ideal candidate brings hands-on expertise with GitLab CI/CD, AWS cloud technologies, automation, and DevSecOps best practices.

Success in this role means building reliable, reusable CI/CD solutions that streamline development, strengthen security, and enable teams to deploy efficiently across the AWS environment. You will provide technical guidance, troubleshoot complex cloud and pipeline challenges, and help establish standards and solutions that support long-term operational success.

What You Will Do in This Role

The Cloud System Engineer III will lead the design, optimization, and integration of GitLab CI/CD solutions within AWS, enabling secure, scalable, and reliable cloud application development and deployment.

Responsibilities include:

• Architect, configure, maintain, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines to support efficient application build, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to design and implement a scalable, secure, and standardized pipeline framework aligned with AWS infrastructure standards and organizational requirements.
• Build reusable pipeline templates, modules, and automations to accelerate new project onboarding, promote consistency, and improve development efficiency.
• Implement automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, and artifact management throughout the CI/CD pipeline to promote application quality, security, and reliability.
• Integrate GitLab workflows with AWS services, including EC2, ECS, Lambda, EKS, S3, IAM, and CloudFormation/Terraform, to support automated and reliable cloud deployments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline issues, performance bottlenecks, deployment failures, and other complex ...