Engineering Applications Administrator 2

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.

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

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