GitHub Administrator

Role Overview Own the day-to-day administration and governance of the GitHub environment, ensuring repositories, teams, users, access, and workflows are well managed and follow established standards.

Key Responsibilities

Manage GitHub organizations, repositories, teams, users, and permissions. Create, configure, archive, and maintain repositories. Manage team structures, membership, and repository access. Conduct regular access, repository, and team audits. Manage repository standards including branch protection, CODEOWNERS, and templates.

Support users with Git, pull requests, branching, and GitHub workflows. Provide basic support for GitHub Actions and troubleshoot common issues. Support teams adopting Content-as-Code / Markdown-based workflows. Create documentation, onboarding material, and conduct GitHub office hours. Identify opportunities to improve governance, simplify processes, and automate repetitive tasks.

Required Skills

Hands-on experience with GitHub administration. Good understanding of Git and GitHub workflows. Experience managing repositories, teams, users, and permissions. Understanding of GitHub Actions and repository governance. Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Nice to Have

GitHub Enterprise experience. GitHub CLI/API knowledge. Basic scripting or automation experience. Experience with Content-as-Code or Documentation-as-Code.