Site Reliability Engineer

About the company

• Garmin creates products designed indoors for outdoor activities.
• Associates may work from home up to four days per month, or one day per week.
• Roles are primarily office-based to support in-person collaboration.
• The DevSecOps team secures and enables widely used services including Garmin Connect, Connect IQ App Store, and Garmin Golf.

Responsibilities

• Partner on process improvements across the full software lifecycle and release process, embedding security and compliance controls by design.
• Participate in design/definition of moderate-complexity systems, features, and processes with explicit reliability, security, and risk requirements.
• Champion a shift-left culture for reliability, delivery performance, and security.
• Monitor and support moderate-complexity software releases, including secure release gates, rollback readiness, and runtime risk validation.
• Implement improvements to the SDLC and production pipeline through automation (policy-as-code, IaC scanning, secrets controls).
• Implement observability improvements across applications and infrastructure, including security telemetry and detection signals.
• Coordinate and improve monitoring practices, integrating reliability and security alerting with actionable runbooks.
• Build and/or maintain tools and dashboards for operational, reliability, and security posture reports.
• Maintain accurate data for reporting on SLOs/SLIs, security KPIs, and compliance metrics.
• Improve incident response by developing and maintaining incident playbooks.
• Facilitate blameless retrospectives for outages and security incidents.
• Use post-incident insights to implement reliability improvements, security hardening, and automated mitigations.
• Participate in the DevSecOps/SRE community to drive standards and training.
• Participate in capacity planning to ensure systems scale at peak demand.

Requirements

• Experience applying Lean principles to individual, team, and organizational process.
• Experience with DevOps-style tools such as Jenkins, GitHub.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Groovy.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Chef, Puppet.
• Good understanding of Linux system administration.
• Configuration of complex multi-tiered server applications.
• Effective judgment, discretion, and decision-making abilities.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Team-oriented with a positive attitude.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Nice to have: CDN providers (Akamai/Cloudflare), APM tools (Zabbix, AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace), application languages/frameworks (Java, SpringBoot, C#, JavaScript, React, Angular), observability tools (Uptrends, Splunk, Kibana), data technologies (RDBMS, No-SQL).

Conditions

• 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.
• Access to e-learning platforms and support for technical conferences attendance.
• Loyalty bonus plus special bonuses.
• Meal tickets.
• Significant discount for Garmin products.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Contribution to the retirement plan (Pillar 3).
• Garmin products available for testing and borrowing.
• Event series championing wellbeing, sports, and community.