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Job Summary:
Garmin is seeking a full-time Lead Platform Engineer at their U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. The role involves implementing, automating, and supporting platforms and CI/CD capabilities, leading complex automation efforts, and working with development teams to enhance scalable delivery practices.
Responsibilities:
• Exercises a significant degree of leadership to projects and programs which contribute directly to organizational objectives
• Leads major IT projects with multiple system and application integrations across the organization
• Develops and supports system integrations between multiple systems and/or applications
• Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies and determines feasibility of team or functional goals/objectives
• Lead complex infrastructure, automation, and integration efforts across DevOps and platform-related services
• Build and improve automation for provisioning, configuration management, and operational support using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Bash, and Python
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and related developer tooling
• Troubleshoot complex Linux, platform, routing and integration issues involving infrastructure and configuration as code
• Improve system stability, scalability, alerting, logging, automated recovery, and overall operational performance
• Support implementations while following security, operational, and change management standards
• Use monitoring and operational data to improve uptime, capacity, and service reliability
• Research technologies and evaluate practical solutions that support team and business goals
• Maintain clear technical and configuration documentation and communicate effectively across teams
• Plan and execute technical work independently while supporting development teams with onboarding and day-to-day guidance
• Applies standards and procedures to accomplish tasks
• Learns how to use and apply appropriate tools as needed for this role
• Documents work thoroughly and in an organized manner and works collaboratively and professionally in team environment with Garmin associates to achieve goals
• Applies the use of applicable technologies to achieve essential functions of this role
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or another related field AND a minimum of 9 years relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule) with the demonstrated ability to apply learned knowledge
• Strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in a small team setting
• Experience in implementing disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Ansible) to automate provisioning and configuration of environments
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, or closely related platform infrastructure in production environments
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems, TCP/IP networking fundamentals, and containerization technologies such as Docker or Podman
• Experience with source and version control practices
• Working skill in one or more scripting or coding languages such as Bash, Python, Ansible, etc.
• Able to think critically, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and work effectively with configuration as code
• Experience supporting or developing CI/CD and platform pipelines
• Work under light supervision and independently determine effective technical approaches and solution
Preferred:
• Possess a breadth of experience across Linux, networking, and coding or automation disciplines
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and the surrounding platform technologies used to deploy, operate, and support it
• Working knowledge of load-balancing technologies (Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, F5, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud platform services (ArgoCD, Tekton, Jenkins, etc.)
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Elastic, Kibana, etc.)
• Familiarity with high-performance platform environments and supporting development team onboarding
• Exposure to messaging technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to document platform configurations, operational procedures, and technical decisions clearly
Company:
Garmin manufactures marine, aviation, and consumer technologies suitable to run on positioning systems. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Olathe, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.