Senior Cloud Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior Cloud Engineer for Garmin's Chandler, AZ location. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, engineering, implementation, and operations of Garmin’s cloud services and will be part of the team that supports and designs the systems responsible for the container platform and its associated development tools ecosystem.

Essential Functions

• Install, configure, and manage platform-related infrastructure and cluster services in an enterprise environment to support container-based application virtualization via GitOps Design
• Ability to take a “code first” approach to fully automate the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and environments using Ansible and/or Terraform and other tools
• Design, deploy, configure and maintain enterprise platform technologies including Apache, Kafka, Redis, Grafana, Premetheus and OpenSearch
• Lead initiatives supporting the migration from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-native architectures
• Find opportunities for automation, improved system stability, and performance improvements
• Lead the implementation of approved solutions, manage capacity, and ensure security policies are met
• Support development pipelines using tools like Tekton, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Github, GitLab and Sonatype Nexus
• Partner with cross organizational teams to plan and implement applications that support business requirements
• Utilize correlated data sources to ensure maximum operational uptime and adherence to SLO's and SLA's
• Interact with development teams to assist with onboarding to the platform and utilizing ecosystem development tools
• Advanced ability to troubleshoot an application load balancer following OSI Layer principles
• Perform general technical troubleshooting and consult with development teams
• Produce and maintain system configuration documents and standards
• Responsible for providing 24/7 on-call coverage on a rotating basis

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Experience with modern application cloud native development practices and application and systems architecture
• Experience in shell scripting, Python, or Ansible development
• Systematic problem-solving approach and a sense of ownership and drive
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as part of a team with direct responsibilities and communicate/collaborate effectively with teammates/internal clients
• Ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to changes in project scope
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working with enterprise level container-based systems (OpenShift, Docker, CRI-O, Kubernetes, Podman, etc.), including associated on-prem infrastructure with support dedicated to OpenShift Platform systems (OCP, OCS, HAProxy, etc.), service mesh
• Experience with observability / logging using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Kafka, Splunk and Kabana
• Experience with CI/CD and developer tools like Jenkins, Nexus, Bitbucket (Git), and Harbor
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Exposure to public cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash or similar languages
• Experience supporting Microservice and Cloud-native applications in a CI/CD automated, multi-tenant application environment with multiple partners and use cases
• Some programming experience in a Linux/Windows environment with at least one language like Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript, Rust, Groovy, or C/C++
• Experience in delivering applications to production with software development technologies, frameworks, and API development experience
• Good understanding of infrastructure such as network, storage, data retention, compute, load balancing, and virtualization

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits