Company Description

Overview We are seeking two hands-on GitLab Administrators / Platform Engineers for a temporary, bounded migration initiative. The work centers on converting existing automation identities into GitLab native service accounts while preserving dependent CI/CD workflows, permissions, and operational continuity.

Enterprise experience strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

- Migrate a defined portfolio of existing service accounts to GitLab native service accounts, one account at a time.
- Rotate or replace credentials and tokens as each automation identity is cut over.
- Securely decommission old credentials and access after successful validation.
- Update permissions and group/project access for migrated automation identities.
- Diagnose and resolve CI/CD or automation failures caused by credential, token, permission, or identity changes.
- Coordinate migration timing, validation, and follow-up with the teams that own the affected automation.
- Support secure, reliable completion of a time-bounded access-remediation initiative.

Qualifications

Must-Have Skills

- Hands-on GitLab administration or platform engineering experience.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated tooling.
- Experience rotating or replacing credentials and tokens in automation workflows.




- Experience securely decommissioning old access after a credential or identity cutover.
- Experience debugging CI/CD or automation integrations that depend 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 experience.

Nice-to-Have Skills

- Experience with identity and access migrations.
- Experience with secrets hygiene or credential-exposure remediation.
- Experience executing repetitive operational work accurately across many similar accounts or tickets.
- Prior service-account migrations, permission replication, or token cutovers in GitLab or a similar source-control platform.
- Ability to untangle unclear ownership and drive follow-up across multiple teams.

Required Tools & Platforms

- GitLab
- GitLab native service accounts or comparable non-human identity models
- CI/CD pipelines and automated tooling
- Credential and token management workflows
- Group/project permissions and access controls

Location, Time & Engagement

- Candidates must be based in an eligible LATAM location.
- Availability for 40 hours per week is required.
- Working-hour alignment with U.S. time zones from Eastern through Pacific is required.

📌 #108 - GitLab Administrator / Platform Engineer - Service Account Migration (Colombia)
🏢 Lifted, an Upwork Company™
📍 Colombia