Senior DevOps Engineer

Your work days are brighter here.

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.

About the Team

Workday, founded in 2005, stands as a groundbreaking force in the human capital and financial management industry, with a global presence and a diverse array of customers. Across our offices worldwide, our teams are united by a shared dedication to innovation, collaboration, and excellence

The Core Services organization is responsible for the foundational technology that powers Workday's applications and platform products. We design, build, and support a highly-performant distributed system that handles complex workloads at the scale required by the world's largest organizations. Our infrastructure runs across both Workday data centers and public cloud environments, executing mission-critical business processes, functions, and integrations. The organization's scope spans from the Gateway to the persistence layer, delivering the scalability, reliability, and efficiency needed to support Workday's rapidly evolving product landscape.

Joining our team means embarking on a journey of opportunity to advance your career and contribute to impactful solutions that shape industries. Whether you thrive with solving sophisticated business problems, collaborating with agile teams, or championing innovation and software design, Workday offers an environment where your talents can thrive.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Devops and  Platform Engineer with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience to join our dynamic team. In this critical role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining our robust and scalable cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Your expertise in deploying and managing storage, compute, caching and control plane solutions will be essential in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of our core platforms.

What you will do

• Design and Implement AWS Infrastructure: Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of complex cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS, specifically focusing on compute , storage , caching, networking and control plane services

• Automate and Orchestrate: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of AWS resources.

• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Contribute to the development and maintenance of our continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable software deployments.

• Monitoring and Alerting: Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure issues.

• Performance Optimisation and Cost Management: Analyse and optimize AWS resource utilisation, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement strategies for efficient cloud operations.

• Security and Compliance: Implement and enforce security best practices within the AWS environment, ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations.

• Troubleshooting and Support: Provide expert-level support for platform-related issues, collaborating with development and operations teams to resolve incidents and implement root cause analyses.

• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed documentation for infrastructure designs, configurations, and operational procedures.

• Collaboration and Mentorship: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, and product managers. Potentially mentor junior engineers and share your expertise.

About You

Basic Qualifications(Required)

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a directly related field.

• 8 years professional software development experience utilising Python or GoLang.

• 3 years of proven experience in cloud engineering, with hands-on experience with either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.

• Proven understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including experience with monitoring, alerting, and basic fault analysis.

• Observability:  Prometheus, Grafana, ELK(Solas) stack

• CI/CD and Deployment: Jenkins and Teamcity, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD and Argo Workflow.

• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes.

Other Qualifications:

• Compute: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda

• Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, RDS

• Infrastructure as Code : CloudFormation, Terraform 

• Possession of relevant cloud certifications is a plus, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional, Google Cloud Associate Engineer or similar.

• Experience in designing and implementing automated solutions for build, infrastructure, and software configuration management.

• Familiarity with implementing and adhering to Public Cloud best practices.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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