Overview
We are seeking a full-time Senior DevOps Engineer for Garmin's Boulder, CO location. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the deployment of software infrastructure, automation, CI/CD and AWS across the Garmin Pay ecosystem. Garmin Pay is a digital wallet designed for people who are always on the move.
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Essential Functions
- Serves in a leadership capacity as an individual contributor supporting cloud infrastructure in AWS including EC2, EKS, networking, and storage components
- May serve as a Lead Software Engineer for complex DevOps projects supporting new technology or improving capability/performance of existing functionality
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and GitHub to enable reliable, automated deployments
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes workloads, including deployments, scaling, and resource utilization
- Architect and design cloud native solutions and apply them in our environments.
- Design and implement automation tools using Python, Java, Bash, and Go.
- Provide recommendations to application development teams to improve system performance, reliability, and deployment practices
- Enforce IaC principles in all our software
- Serve as an expert in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes
- Continuously improve system reliability, availability, and operational efficiency
- Own relationships with third party service providers to meet certificate rotation requirements, improve security posture, etc.
- Participates in project leadership and/or program planning including providing technical input to product development plans and concept documents
- Makes substantial contributions toward determination of project goal/objective feasibility and applies good judgment in setting schedules/risk taking
- Mentors and provides guidance to less experienced Software Engineers (1 & 2)
- Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies
- Offers process improvement suggestions and authors new procedures as appropriate
- Provides reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem solving techniques
- Supports working hours as part of a rotating schedule to provide on call support of Garmin’s 24/7 operations
- The deadline to apply to this role is April 24, 2026
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, Physics or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
- Demonstrated proficiency with designing well architected software systems and modules that support new technology or improve capability/performance of existing functionality
- Demonstrated competence with researching fundamental problems and implementing appropriate solutions
- Demonstrated ability to serve as a lead DevOps engineer for a complex project
- Ability to decompose functional requirements into well-defined tasks while balancing quality, quantity, and complexity in work output
- Demonstrated capability to offer peer technical assessments in areas of expertise, new technologies and software designs
- Strong proficiency in operating production workloads in Kubernetes
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Must be positive, detail oriented, organized, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Cloudflare or similar CDN/WAF platforms
- Deep knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments
- Experience with autoscaling, high availability, and fault-tolerant system design
- Deep experience with Public Cloud Providers (e.g. AWS)
- Exposure to service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio)
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tools (e.g., ArgoCD)
- Deep knowledge of PKI and SSL/TLS certificate management
- Experience with PCI compliance standards
- Experience managing and configuring Linux-based servers and infrastructure
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
