OverviewWe are seeking a full-time
Lead Platform Engineer at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area to implement, automate, and support platforms and CI/CD capabilities that enable reliable application delivery across cloud and on-premises environments.
In this role, you will lead complex automation efforts, support Linux-based platforms and related integrations, improve operational reliability and performance, and work as a consultant with development teams to support scalable delivery practices. This role is aligned to a level 3 engineering scope with strong hands-on ownership of automation, platform operations, troubleshooting, and cross-team technical execution. environments.
Essential Functions- 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
Basic Qualifications- 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
Desired Qualifications- Possess a breadth of experince 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
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits
