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.

At Garmin, we leverage the full potential of both public and private cloud environments to drive innovation. These platforms empower us to efficiently manage technology, staffing, and costs as we evolve our product offerings.

We are looking for a Senior IT DevOps Administrator who will drive the design, implementation, and optimization of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that support the development and deployment of high-performance, scalable applications. You will be responsible for improving system reliability, automating infrastructure, and ensuring best practices for deployment, security, and monitoring across cloud and on-premises environments.

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. 

Essential job functions:

• Leads complex multi-system/server IT projects and drives collaboration with other teams and departments.
• Develops and supports system integrations between multiple systems and/or applications.
• Find opportunities for automation, improved system stability, and performance improvements.
• Ensures high availability of IT systems/applications with scalable alerting, logging and automated recovery.
• Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies and determines feasibility of team or functional goals/objectives.
• Understands business impacts of issues as they relate to IT owned solutions.
• Ability to act as a mentor for less experienced professionals.
• Proven level experience with source/version control.
• Proven understanding of IT systems such as Windows, Linux operating systems, TCP/IP networks.
• Strong skillset and ability to learn with one or more scripting/coding languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Ansible).
• Ability to think critically and troubleshoot IT system issues and config as code.
• Ability to understand system architecture and plan own technical work.
• Proficient knowledge of ITIL Change Management practices.
• Documents work thoroughly and in an organized manner.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or another relevant field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Ansible) to automate provisioning and configuration of environments.
• Strong knowledge with RPM/DNF based Linux operating systems (Redhat, Oracle, Rocky).
• Strong understanding of containerization (Docker).
• Proficient in scripting languages and experience with configuration management tools (Bash, Python, Ruby, Ansible or Terraform).
• Strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in a small team setting.

Would be a plus:

• A mixture of Windows, Linux, networking and coding/automation skills.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms like OpenStack.
• Deep knowledge of block storage platforms like Ceph.

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.