Overview
We are seeking a full-time DevOps Engineer 2 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.
https://explore.garmin.com/en-US/garmin-pay/
Essential Functions
- Creates and executes designs to maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS, including EC2, EKS, networking, and storage components
- 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
- Collaborate with application development teams to improve system performance, reliability, and deployment practices
- Develop automation tools using Python, Java, Bash, and/or Go.
- Applies design standards and procedures to implement basic designs
- Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation to reduce manual processes and improve consistency
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes
- Continuously improve system reliability, availability, and operational efficiency
- Coordinate and work with third party service providers
- May perform as a technical leader or Lead Software Engineer for derivative software project
- Collaborates and adds value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions
- Provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques
- Performs technical root cause analysis and outlines corrective action for given problems
- Contributes to technical research on new technologies
- Estimates level of effort, evaluates new options of similar technology, offers suggestions to improve processes, and provides feedback on some electrical design aspects
- Serves as a mentor to less experienced software engineers (Software Engineer 1)
- 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 1 year 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 and experience operating production workloads in Kubernetes
- Experience with Cloudflare or similar CDN/WAF platforms
- Experience with Public Cloud Providers (e.g. AWS)
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments
Desired Qualifications
- Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools (e.g., ArgoCD)
- Knowledge of PKI and SSL/TLS certificate management
- Exposure to service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio-Kubernetes)
- 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
