What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Applications Administrator 2 position at Garmin?
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 in our Olathe, KS location.
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
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits
The Core Platform Technology team at Garmin is looking for an Engineering Applications Administrator 2 to engineer, deploy and support ADO and GitHub applications in our Olathe, KS location.
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
- Provide administrative support for software engineering applications. These applications are used within the Engineering department, including, but not limited to software configuration management, issue tracking, and other software development related applications.
- Expertise and ability to provide 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.
- Experience with software engineering application upgrades.
- Experience in evaluating, integrating, administrating, and supporting new software engineering applications.
- 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.
- Associate’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 4 years 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 and 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
- Previous experience working in a team environment
- Experience migrating source code from various systems to GitHub Enterprise. 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
- Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence
- Artifactory
- Gerrit/GitHub
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins/Zuul
- Expertise and ability to provide fundamental support and administration for Windows and Linux Operating Systems
- Developing tools and processes to improve and workflows
- Experience with Cloud Infrastructure (e.g., OpenStack, Amazon AWS, Cloud Foundry) and Virtualization technologies (e.g., VMWare, VirtualBox) in support of software build processes
- Document new processes, update, train and educate other team members
- Scripting and/or programming knowledge is a plus
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits