XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract

Sr. Consultant

Sydney, Australia | Posted on 05/14/2026

- XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company

- XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.

- We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.

- XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.

- We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.

Job Description

Must Have Skills:

- Hands-onexperience deploying GitLab Omnibus in production.

- In-depthknowledge of GitLab components: Gitaly, Praefect, PostgreSQL, Redis,Registry

- Experiencewith PostgreSQL HA using Patroni, etcd, PgBouncer, HAProxy.

- Strongunderstanding of VM-based architectures (e.g., VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V).

- Objectstorage integration using MinIO or S3-compatible services.

- GitLabGeo setup and synchronization troubleshooting.

- CI/CD configuration, runners, token management, andaccess control.

Nice to Have Skills:

- Familiaritywith Ansible or other configuration management tools

- Monitoringwith Prometheus/Grafana





- Understandingof DNS-based failover vs. HAProxy-based

- Experience with air-gapped or security-hardenedenvironments

Detailed Job Description ;

- Architectand deploy GitLab using Omnibus packages on VMs with full HAconfiguration.

- Setup and maintain GitLab Geo replication between Site A (primary) and SiteB (backup).

- ConfigurePostgreSQL HA clusters using Patroni, etcd, PgBouncer, and HAProxy

- Implementand manage Gitaly Clusters with Praefect for repository sharding and HA

- Setup MinIO as an on-prem object storage backend with bucket-levelreplication

- Configureand isolate Redis as non-replicated, cold standby at Geo secondary site

- Automateinfrastructure provisioning and configuration management usingTerraform.

- IntegrateGitLab with internal DNS, firewall, and networking services for HA &DR; readiness.

- Configureand manage GitLab Runners with appropriate executor strategies using k8.

- Developand execute backup, restore, and failover testing procedures.

- Createdetailed architecture documentation and standard operating procedures(SOPs)

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📌 Sr. Consultant (City of Sydney)
🏢 Xpt Software Australia
📍 City of Sydney