At Garmin we create products that are designed indoors for outdoor activities. We do this to enable our customers to make the most of their time spent pursuing their passions.
We recognize the value of flexibility in supporting employee well-being, work-life balance, and effective collaboration. Associates may work from home up to four days per month, or one day per week, while remaining connected to the teams and culture that help us do our best work.
Our roles are primarily office-based because we believe the best ideas, innovation, and strongest professional relationships are built through in-person collaboration, making regular team interaction an important part of our culture and future success.
Cloud Platform Technology (CPT) is the core of the company which helps all segments and engineers to have reliable and sustainable tools to perform the day-to-day business. The CPT operates using cutting edge technologies and cost efficient ensuring also business perspective and technologies stacks.
The Core Software Engineering Services (CSES) team is responsible for building and maintaining the tool stack in which our customers (colleagues across the whole company) perform daily business and monitoring the health and dependencies of the services.
We believe that collaboration leads to the best ideas, and we rely heavily on team interaction. As a role based in Cluj-Napoca, this position will require 5 days in the office each week.
Responsibilities
- Support CI/CD pipelines to automate and streamline the software delivery lifecycle (help assist product teams to build/maintain).
- Automate routine operational tasks and system maintenance to enhance reliability and consistency.
- Support installation, configuration, and upgrades of software engineering applications and environments.
- Administer and optimize Jenkins or other automation servers to ensure build and deployment stability.
- Evaluate, integrate, and support new tools and technologies that improve engineering efficiency and resilience.
- Implement, maintain, and enhance monitoring and testing solutions to ensure application health and performance.
- Perform technical root cause analysis, identify corrective actions, and prevent recurring issues.
- Participate in capacity planning, backup management, and scaling strategies to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate in peer code reviews, offering feedback and recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering knowledge growth across the team.
- Ensure high availability and reliability of services through proactive monitoring and automation.
- Contribute to process improvements by identifying automation opportunities and suggesting technical enhancements.
- Work collaboratively across geographically distributed teams to achieve performance and reliability goals
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps Engineer or Release Engineer
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (Jenkins and/or GitHub Action)
- Worked with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration
- Proficiency in scripting with Linux Shell and/or Python for automation
- Good understanding of Linux and/or Windows Server system administration
- Understanding of monitoring and alerting best practices, with experience using Zabbix, Grafana, Kibana or other monitoring tools
- Deep understanding and experience with software engineering tools like: Gerrit, Git/GitHub, Jira, Confluence
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and a collaborative mindset
Would be a plus:
- Hands-on experience with Ansible
- Familiarity with configuring monitoring platforms
- Knowledge of tools like Zuul, Azure DevOps, Openstack
Benefits
Benefits to enhance your experience:
- 24 days off each year plus extra vacation days based on years at Garmin and compensation for legal holidays.
- Health package subscription and yearly budget for glasses.
- Monthly budget for sports and wellbeing activities.
- Local and global career development programs (training, mentorship, technical and leadership development, and more).
- Access to e-learning platforms and support for technical conferences attendance.
- Loyalty bonus within the company, plus other special bonuses (for holidays and personal life events).
- Meal tickets.
Yours exclusively when part of our team:
- Significant discount for Garmin products.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Contribution to the retirement plan (Pillar 3).
- Garmin products available for testing and borrowing.
- A comprehensive event series championing wellbeing, sports, and community tailored to foster holistic health (featuring sports events, classes, hackathons, parties, and more).
- Other benefits which we invite you to discover along the recruitment process.
Garmin Cluj is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, age, or disability.