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Professional Services Engineers engage with customers to provide installation, migration, training, and advisory services. They handle installations ranging from single-node Omnibus installs, to our largest reference architectures utilizing IaC/CaC, migrations from multiple systems to GitLab SaaS or self-hosted, and advisory services across the entire GitLab feature stack.
Professional Services Engineers are expected to be able to interface not only with the customer, but with our GitLab Product/Engineering teams, to find the best route for customer success, and to help drive improvements into GitLab features and processes.
Responsibilities
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Uses a consultative approach to customer engagements
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Does not focus on just “doing the work”
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Looks for opportunities to help the customer achieve their vision more effectively and efficiently
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Delivers on SOW with guidance from technical architects
- SOW scope may include:
- Installation and configuration of GitLab solutions in the customer environment
- Provide technical training sessions remotely and/or on-site
- Provide documentation for implementation, guides, maintenance, etc relevant to the customer requirements.
- Manage creation of new and/or maintenance of existing artifacts and templates for deliverables and training
- Develop and implement migration plans for customer VCS & data migration
- SOW scope may include:
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Contributes to the extension and maintenance of documentation/scripts for implementation and workflow to align with custom requirement
- Documents opportunities to help the customer achieve their vision more effectively and efficiently
- Communicate opportunities to the customer project and account team
- Supports engagement managers on quoting and scoping of SOWs
- Document and implement improvements for Professional Services engagement processes
Requirements
- Professional exposure with one or more IaC/CaC technologies:
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Packer
- Puppet
- Chef
- Professional exposure with one or more cloud providers:
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Proficienct in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
- Experience using, deploying, or configuring GitLab
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, sometimes with multiple customer engagements at once
- Positive disposition and solution-oriented mindset
- Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and provide clear status updates
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- Experience using, deploying, or configuring GitLab
- Ability to advise on GitLab recommendations, and build direction/consensus with the customer to move forward
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
- Shares GitLabvalues, and work in accordance with those values
- Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
- ~20% travel may be required
Compensation
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Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
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GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive DevSecOps Platform used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission makes it clear that we believe in a world where everyone can contribute. We make that possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values.
We strive to create a transparent environment where all team members around the world feel that their voices are heard and welcomed. We also aim to be a place where people can show up as their full selves each day and contribute their best.
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