GitLab Administrator/Platform Engineer

Job description

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a GitLab Administrator/Platform Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Argentina. Our client is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing job sites.

Our client is undertaking a one-time, time-bound initiative to migrate existing GitLab service accounts from standard user accounts to GitLab native service accounts. This migration is part of a broader effort to strengthen account security and optimize licensing costs.

Because GitLab does not currently provide tooling to automate this migration, the process must be completed manually on an account-by-account basis. In this role, you will support the migration of existing service accounts, ensuring that each account is correctly converted, validated, and transitioned to the new configuration.

This is a focused contractor position with a clearly defined scope and completion goal. Successful delivery will help strengthen the client’s security posture while reducing ongoing licensing costs.

Timezone Coverage: U. S. Time Zones (ET–PT)

Requirements

- Hands-on experience with GitLab administration or platform engineering.

- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.

- Experience rotating or replacing credentials and tokens in automation workflows and securely decommissioning outdated access.

- Experience troubleshooting CI/CD or automation integrations that rely on service credentials.

- Prior experience migrating service accounts or other non-human identities.

- Experience updating permissions and group/project access for automation identities.

- Mid- to senior-level professional experience in a relevant technical role.

Will be a plus

- Experience with identity and access migrations.

- Experience with secrets management, credential hygiene, or remediation of credential exposure.

- Experience handling repetitive operational tasks across a large number of similar accounts or tickets in parallel.

- Prior experience with service account migrations, permission replication, or token cutovers, particularly in GitLab or similar source-control platforms.

- Ability to navigate unclear ownership and proactively drive follow-up across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

- Manually migrate all 88 service accounts currently configured as user accounts to GitLab native service accounts, one account at a time.

- Rotate or replace credentials and tokens and securely decommission outdated access as each account is migrated.

- Update permissions and group/project access for the migrated automation identities.

- Coordinate closely with account-owning teams throughout the migration process.

- Validate each migrated account and ensure that associated automation workflows continue to function as expected.

- Track migration progress, identify blockers or ownership gaps, and drive issues through to resolution.