Senior DevOps Engineer

Garmin Italy Technologies is now boarding a Senior DevOps Engineer.

We are looking for a self-motivated, goal-oriented professional with a passion for cloud technologies, infrastructure automation, and platform engineering. You will play a key role in designing, building, and evolving the cloud platforms that power Garmin products and services, helping engineering teams deliver software faster, more reliably, and at scale.

We offer you the opportunity to join a team of professionals who work together to achieve the best results for our customers. You will collaborate with people who combine technical excellence, innovation, and a passion for solving complex engineering challenges.

What you’ll do:

• Design, provision, and manage resilient cloud environments in Microsoft Azure, leveraging automation to ensure the highest standards of security, performance, scalability, and availability.
• Lead the implementation and evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Bicep, developing reusable, modular, and maintainable infrastructure solutions for Garmin cloud platforms.
• Design and maintain cloud platform services, ensuring consistency, governance, compliance, and operational excellence across Azure environments.
• Architect and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines that enable engineering teams to deploy infrastructure and software with confidence, consistency, and minimal manual intervention.
• Design, operate, and optimize containerized applications and Kubernetes-based workloads, supporting cloud-native architectures and services.
• Drive the adoption of engineering best practices for automation, observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational reliability.
• Lead and contribute to architectural reviews, providing recommendations for cloud adoption, infrastructure modernization, scalability, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and platform issues through deep root cause analysis, ensuring long-term platform stability and resilience.
• Partner with Developers, QA Engineers, Architects, and Product teams to deliver scalable technical solutions that support business objectives.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of continuous improvement, automation, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in technical discipline plus at least 5 years of experience in DevOps or related infrastructure-focused roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform, including networking, identity management, governance, security, monitoring, and scalability best practices.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Bicep.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating production-grade Azure environments at scale.
• Experience building and maintaining enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation languages such as PowerShell, Python, and Bash.
• Strong understanding of Git-based development workflows and DevOps practices.
• Thorough understanding of networking, security, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
• Ability to drive technical decisions and influence cloud architecture, automation strategy, and operational best practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership within cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Team-oriented attitude, excellent collaboration skills, and a passion for continuous improvement.
• Fluent in English.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Experience designing and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud services and experience with CloudFormation.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience in leading technical teams.
• Familiarity with marine technologies, navigation systems, and connected devices.
• A true “geek” mindset: if you believe that any task performed more than twice deserves automation, you’ll fit right in.

Pay Range: €40.000 – €56.000

In accordance with the Directive (EU) 2023⁄970 on Pay Transparency, our organization is committed to ensuring equal pay for men and women for equal work or work of equal value.

Collective Bargaining Agreement applied: Collective Bargaining Agreement Metalworking Industry (CCNL Metalmeccanico Industria)

Contract Level: B2

Our home: you can find us in via Fondacci 269 in Massarosa (LU), Italy.

Workplace type: on-site

Company:

Garmin® Italy Technologies produces electronic charts for the leisure boating market. Our mission is to delight our customer by producing market leading intuitive and innovative marine cartography content and features through the use of creativity, engineering excellence through market knowledge and efficient production procedures. Our cartography is available to boaters for use in GPS chartplotters, and within our app for Apple® and Android™ devices.

It’s not about the things we make. It’s about the things we make possible.

Our office is based in Massarosa, Tuscany, the perfect starting point for reaching nearby cities of art, beaches and mountains.

With over 23,000 associates in 37 countries around the world, the Garmin® group brings GPS navigation and wearable technology to the automotive, aviation, marine, outdoor and fitness markets. At Garmin®, we like to work hard and play hard. It comes easy when you work on cool products with hard-working individuals who share the same passion.

We think every day is an opportunity to innovate and a chance to beat yesterday.

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