Linux Systems Administrator

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.

We recognize the value of flexibility in supporting employee well-being, work-life balance, and effective collaboration. Associates may work from home up to four days per month, or one day per week, while remaining connected to the teams and culture that help us do our best work.

Our roles are primarily office-based because we believe the best ideas, innovation, and strongest professional relationships are built through in-person collaboration, making regular team interaction an important part of our culture and future success.

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 Linux Systems Administrator who will perform and plan management and administration of technology in his area of specialty.  You will work with team to ensure technology is effectively supporting enterprise systems.

Essential job functions:

• Designs and develops complex, integrated solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance of Garmin’s Linux server computing systems.
• Performs and evaluates costs analyses and vendor comparisons form small through large scale projects to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations.
• Continuously develop technical subject matter expertise on established and emerging server, storage, load balancer, and open-source systems and other server technologies.
• Understands and avoids capacity, redundancy, and health constraints of server, storage, load balancer, and other open-source systems.
• Provides technical input to solution development plans and concept documents.
• Performs and plans major version upgrades.
• Designs and implements effective monitoring of enterprise system.
• Tunes systems using experience and deep knowledge of area.
• Foresees risks, communicates and mitigates those before problems arise.
• Documents technical designs and procedures for team library.
• Plans and manages technical projects involving other teams.
• Contributes to technical research on new technologies, processes or procedures.
• Provides 24x7 on-call support based on a rota.       
• Communicates effectively regarding system operations and environment changes.
• Adheres to SOX, PCI, and other regulatory requirements as dictated.
• Ensures that all security requirements are met or exceeded.
• Demonstrates understanding of business impacts of issues and how they relate to IT owned solutions.