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.