Senior Solutions Architect, AI / Core DevOps - EMEA
GitLab is hiring an AI Subject Matter Expert (Senior Solutions Architect) to help shape how teams apply AI across the future of core DevOps. The role combines deep technical credibility with a practical view of how AI can improve the software development lifecycle, from planning and coding through delivery and operations. You will work with customers, internal teams and product-aligned stakeholders to clarify emerging use cases, guide technical strategy and turn ideas into grounded, real-world approaches. This is a remote, asynchronous role within GitLab's Solutions Architecture organization, focused on the EMEA region.
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Responsibilities
- ▹Serve as GitLab's AI subject matter expert for core DevOps, bringing technical depth to customer and internal conversations
- ▹Partner with customers and field teams to map AI use cases to real software development lifecycle challenges and recommend approaches that improve productivity, delivery speed or operational reliability
- ▹Develop and share informed perspectives on the future of AI in software development, including more automated delivery workflows
- ▹Engage with product-aligned teams to ensure domain expertise reflects how GitLab evolves its platform capabilities
- ▹Evaluate and discuss architectural tradeoffs such as monoliths versus microservices and monorepos versus polyrepos in the context of AI-enabled development
- ▹Draw on hands-on experience with modern DevOps tooling and automation, including CI/CD, to inform strategic discussions
- ▹Collaborate asynchronously across regions to share findings, align recommendations and keep customer and product work moving
Requirements
- ▹Significant experience in software development, DevOps, platform engineering, solutions architecture or a closely related technical field
- ▹Deep interest and hands-on experimentation in how AI is changing the software development lifecycle, especially in core DevOps workflows
- ▹Strong technical foundation in modern software delivery, including automation, CI/CD and cloud-native or platform-oriented environments
- ▹Ability to speak thoughtfully about architectural and operational tradeoffs, including Kubernetes, monolithic versus microservices and monorepo versus polyrepo approaches
- ▹Experience guiding technical strategy with customers, internal stakeholders or engineering teams in a practical way
- ▹Clear communication skills, able to explain complex technical ideas to different audiences
- ▹Comfort working with minimal oversight as a manager of one in a remote, asynchronous environment
Nice to have
- ▹Transferable expertise in AI and DevSecOps from backgrounds such as practitioner, senior solutions architect or technical expert
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Flexible Paid Time Off
- ▹Team Member Resource Groups
- ▹Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- ▹Growth and Development Fund
- ▹Parental Leave
About the company
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, trusted by more than 50 million registered users and over half of the Fortune 100. This role sits in a small global team within GitLab's Solutions Architecture organization that links fast-moving AI innovation with the realities of customer environments and modern software delivery, in an all-remote, asynchronous culture.