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At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.
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About the Team
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About the Role
As a Senior DevOps engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments. You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes.
About You
What will you be doing?
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Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
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Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes.
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Forecast and plan for the infrastructure needs of a fast-growing SaaS company and find ways to improve efficiency and cost
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Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level
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Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers
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Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second
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Closely collaborating with Developers to setup, configure and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS
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Analyze system performance and capacity and plan for future growth
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Securing our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)
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Building and expanding monitoring and alerting systems for both infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating into established 3rd party SaaS ones.
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Establishing comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our entire platform
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Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity
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Champion automation of manual processes and reducing operational overhead
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years DevOps experience
- Demonstrable experience in infrastructure as code frameworks, in particular with Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible.
- Production experience in creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS, spanning across multiple geographic regions.
- 3+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2.
- 3+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem.
Other Qualifications
- A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Typescript)
- Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
- Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems
- Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
- Passion to optimize and automate, with the maturity to know when and where it’s appropriate.
- Mentoring and coaching engineers to inspire professional growth
- Experience influencing and affecting technological change at the team level
- Autoscaling and autohealing of infrastructure.
- Strong hands on experience with the AWS ecosystem
- Familiarity with service mesh concepts and experience implementing one of the service mesh frameworks like Istio or Linkerd with Kubernetes clusters (circuit breaking, failure injection, retries and timeouts on the data-plane proxy level, canary deployments using weight based routing for pods and services, etc’).
- 5+ years of experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch stack for logging and PagerDuty and alerting.
- 8+ years of experience building, maintaining and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
- Production experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters in a high availability cluster such as RabbitMQ, SQS or Kafka
- A passion for automation and integrating with build systems such as GitHub, GitLab CI.
- Security centric in all approaches to design in infra as code as well as Docker build pipelines and microservice deployments.
- Ability to quickly learn complex systems and environments, from the network through the application.
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
