Senior Director, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms - GitLab

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, trusted by more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 to ship better, more secure software faster.

An Overview of This Role

As the Director of Dedicated Infrastructure Engineering & Platforms, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, GitLab's premium single-tenant SaaS offering for enterprise customers in regulated industries and the public sector.

You will lead a high-performing organization of managers and engineers who own the entire lifecycle of dedicated and cellular platforms, from orchestration, integrations, resilience, and incident response to switchboard APIs, public sector compliance, and enterprise customer migrations. Your mission is to scale GitLab Dedicated toward an aggressive growth target, ensuring enterprise customers experience full platform capabilities with dedicated infrastructure, compliance certifications, and enterprise-grade SLAs in an isolated environment.

What You'll Do

• Own the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, ensuring the platform scales with customer growth and converges with GitLab's cellular architecture.
• Partner with Product and executive leadership to deliver on growth targets, focusing on platform reliability, faster customer onboarding, infrastructure cost efficiency, and self-service administration.
• Lead engineering teams building tenant orchestration and integrations, resilience and incident response, the Switchboard control plane, public sector platforms, and enterprise migration tooling.
• Deliver GitLab Dedicated for Government: AWS GovCloud infrastructure, FedRAMP operations and audit readiness, air-gapped isolation, and public sector feature delivery.
• Make enterprise migrations to Dedicated predictable, repeatable, and low-disruption through self-service tooling and guided workflows.
• Hire, coach, and scale engineering managers across distributed teams, integrating practical AI-enabled workflows.
• Partner with Product, Security, and Customer Support to align customer commitments, architecture, and investments.

What You'll Bring

• Experience leading engineering organizations running enterprise single or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and cloud platforms at scale.
• Proven track record of measurably improving production reliability, reducing toil, or lowering infrastructure cost.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native and cellular architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and modular services.
• Experience delivered and operated enterprise offerings under strict compliance regimes such as FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud.
• Experience leading organizational changes, including adopting AI-enabled workflows to raise engineering efficiency.
• Ability to translate financial targets into engineering investments, headcount plans, and execution roadmaps.

About the Team

The Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms organization builds and runs GitLab Dedicated across five key areas:

• Platform Orchestration & Integrations: Automation for Dedicated tenants and cellular environments.
• Core Features, Resilience & Response: Compliance features, disaster recovery, automated failover, and incident response.
• Switchboard & Control Plane: APIs and interfaces for self-service tenant management.
• Public Sector Platforms & Compliance: AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, and air-gapped isolation.
• Enterprise Migrations & Import Tooling: Migration programs, Geo-based tools, and Direct Transfer workflows.