Overview:
The Core Platform Technology team at Garmin is looking for an Engineering Applications Administrator 2 to engineer, deploy and support ADO and GitHub applications at Garmin’s U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.
At Garmin, as a leading worldwide provider of navigation devices and wearable technology, our focus is on developing, designing, and supporting superior products. Our advanced technology promotes performance, safety, and ease of use in every market we serve. That makes us an engineering and technology company with a keen focus on recruiting talent in those fields. But the same vertical integration business model that keeps all design and manufacturing processes in-house also gives us the incentive to hire top performers from different backgrounds, including operations, finance and accounting, information technology, sales, marketing, and communications.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Demonstrate proficient use and knowledge of standards and procedures
- Use tools and scripting to efficiently manage technology
- Participate in roadmap planning for systems or applications
- Coordinate and communicate changes impacting cross-functional team members
- Identify interdependencies in system and application components
- Make recommendations for component level improvements
- Provide administrative support for software engineering applications which these applications are used within the Engineering department, including, but not limited to software configuration management, issue tracking, and other software development related applications
- Provide expertise, support and administration for GitHub
- Provide triage and troubleshooting for incoming user requests to:
- Ensure requests contain complete and accurate information
- Classify and categorize requests
- Handle requests or assign to other team members as appropriate
- Learn how to use and apply engineering tools as needed for this role
- Thoroughly document work in an organized manner; work collaboratively and professionally in a team environment with other Garmin associates to achieve goals
- Create and maintain programs, scripts, and automate routine tasks where possible
- Ability to prioritize among many competing business initiatives
- Mentor Engineering Applications Administrator 1
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Design, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Computer-Aided Design and Drafting, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science or another technology related field AND a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- Must be proficient with Microsoft Office products
- Excellent academics
- Demonstrated ability to support enterprise systems
- Demonstrates ability to solve moderately complex technical problems independently
- Demonstrated experience in successful implementation of technology solutions
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in a small team setting
- Consistently demonstrates quality and effectiveness in work documentation and organization
- Experience with software engineering application upgrades
- Experience in evaluating, integrating, administrating, and supporting new software engineering applications
Desired Qualifications
- Previous experience working in a team environment
- Experience migrating source code from various systems to GitHub Enterprise and has a strong understanding of source control management, tool integration, and repository management in an enterprise environment
- Experience in software engineering applications management
- Experience with the following applications:
- Azure DevOps
- Xwiki
- Artifactory
- GitHub/Gerrit
- Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence
- Jenkins/Zuul
- Expertise and ability to provide fundamental support and administration for Windows and Linux Operating Systems
- Developing tools and processes to improve workflows
- Experience documenting new processes and updating, training and educating other team members
- Scripting and/or programming knowledge
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