Team Leader Site Reliability Engineering | Core Technology Team Cluj-Napoca

Team Leader Site Reliability Engineering | Core Technology Team
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania

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
- house also gives us the incentive to hire top performers from different backgrounds, including operations, finance and accounting, information technology, sales, marketing, and communications.

At Garmin, we create products that solve complex problems and make people’s lives safer, healthier, and more enjoyable.

We are looking for a Team Leader to join the Core Technology Team. As a Team Leader, you will be directing and coordinating a team of software engineers who administer, develop, and support engineering tools within Garmin`s engineering group.

We believe that collaboration leads to the best ideas, and we rely heavily on team interaction. As a hybrid role based in Cluj-Napoca, this position will require at least 3 days in the office each week.

Essential job functions:

• Responsible for driving, coordinating, supervising and facilitating the work processes of Site Reliability engineering teams.
• Active leading or delegation the solution creation, effort estimation, development, and project implementation.
• Create, maintain, improve and provide needed resources to enable team members to do their work.
• Ensure efficient
  - team communication and disseminate information coming from outside the group.
• Adhere to Garmin Engineering SOPs and Processes.
• Demonstrate broad understanding of Garmin’s business model, including operations, production, sales and marketing.

Requirements

Technical:

• Strong experience working in a Linux Server environment.
• Demonstrated experience in Python or other programming language.
• Basic understanding of networking, TCP/IP, load balancers, IP addressing, DNS, and certificates.
• Knowledge or familiarity with opensource automation tools (Ansible, AWX).
• Perform and plan major version upgrades of software and hardware while complying with change control best practices.
• Collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions.
• Create and maintain programs and scripts and automate routine tasks where possible.
• Ability to prioritize among many competing business initiatives.
• Provide reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound
  - solving techniques.
• Support application server capacity planning, backups, and other
  - based activities
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.

Leadership skills:

• Proven experience in performance evaluation of team members.
• Ability to set SMART objectives for each team member that align with the team and organizational goals.
• Demonstrate mentoring experience in helping team members tailor their careers.
• Focus on efficient time and resource management.
• Demonstrate strong and effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Skilled in feedback delivery for team members.
• Able to negotiate different aspect of product delivery with team members and stakeholders.
• Excellent English speaking and writing skills.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in leading teams of 4+ people.
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.
• Have experience with working as part of an Agile (especially Scrum) team.
• Solid abilities in organizing, planning, and prioritizing team work.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience.

Would be a plus:

• Relational database experience (My
  SQL or Postgre
  SQL preferred).
• Experience using Git/Git
  Hub (or similar source code manager).
• Knowledge on Dev
  Ops and Agile tools such as Artifactory, Confluence, Jira, Gerrit, Jenkins.
• Experience in Container and package manager technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge and experience in Agile project management and CI/CD deployment process.
• Demonstrates mastery of relevant software engineering tools (configuration management systems, build processes, debuggers, emulators, simulators, and logic analyzers).

Benefits

Benefits to enhance your experience:

• 24 days off each year plus extra vacation days based on years at Garmin and compensation for legal holidays.
• Health package subscription and yearly budget for glasses.
• Monthly budget for sports and wellbeing activities.
• Local and global career development programs (training, mentorship, technical and leadership development, and more).
• Access to
  - learning platforms and support for technical conferences attendance.
• Loyalty bonus within the company, plus other special bonuses (for holidays and personal life events).
• Meal tickets.

Yours exclusively when part of our team:

• Significant discount for Garmin products.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Contribution to the retirement plan (Pillar 3).
• Garmin products available for testing and borrowing.
• A comprehensive event series championing wellbeing, sports, and community tailored to foster holistic health (featuring sports events, classes, hackathons, parties, and more).
• Other benefits which we invite you to discover along the recruitment process.

Garmin Cluj is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, age or disability.