Senior Data Platform Administrator

Senior Data Platform Admin (DBA)

We are seeking a full-time Senior Data Platform Admin (DBA in title) at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, and RabbitMQ. Essential functions include analyzing existing database systems and recommending improvements, collaborating with supervisors and security champions to establish database security structures and ensure SOX compliance, creating and maintaining database access systems including tables, indexes, views, stored procedures, and triggers, administering database replication between servers, across Local Area Network and Wide Area Network, tuning and optimizing database objects, providing 24x7 on-call support, providing technical input to solution development plans and concept documents, demonstrating understanding of business impacts of issues and how they relate to owned solutions, communicating effectively in written and verbal form in a cross-functional setting with business partners, sharing knowledge and actively mentoring less experienced DBAs, performing and planning major version upgrades, designing and implementing effective monitoring of enterprise systems, tuning systems using experience and deep knowledge of the area, foreseeing risks and communicating and mitigating those before problems arise, documenting technical designs and procedures for team library, planning and managing technical projects involving other teams, communicating technology effectively to non-technical associates and management, recognizing and understanding technology impacts within the business, and contributing to technical research on new technologies, processes or procedures with a desire to continuously learn new technologies.

Basic qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or another related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience. Must be proficient with at least one of the following database platforms: Search: OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, No SQL: Cassandra, Caching: Valkey/Redis, Streaming: Kafka, Messaging: RabbitMQ. Develops automation scripts using Bash/Python/Ansible for managing database infrastructure. Experience with NoSQL database technologies. Demonstrated ability to implement new technologies effectively. Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in a small team setting.

Desired qualifications include previous experience working in a team environment and experience with at least two of the following database platforms: RDBMS: MySQL, SQL Server or Postgres, Search: OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, No SQL: Cassandra, Caching: Valkey/Redis, Streaming: Kafka, Messaging: RabbitMQ.

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.