DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer (Python or Go)

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

The right candidate will put the customer first, understand their user stories and will identify ways to support them, ensuring stability and ability to scale and meeting the needs both of our customers and other Workday technical teams. In this role you will take ownership and will be passionate about operational excellence, automation, and developing self-service tooling to enable rapid innovation for developers.
With constant attention and focus on our customers, you will deliver quickly on a wide range of daily tasks - from environment provisioning, monitoring, environment troubleshooting, incident management, ad-hoc requests and automation efforts - while providing transparency of work being performed. Collaborating and communicating with other teams is crucial to achieve success.

About the Role

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native). 

- Define, design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain automation infrastructure for configuration management and service deployment
- Improve operational efficiency to help scale the team by automating where reasonable.
- Build platforms that empower application developers to interact with production in a self service manner.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with peers and partners to deliver results through collaboration.
- Respond to production monitoring: triage, fix, and resolution. Retro and act on incidents to continually improve our systems and processes.
- Engage in a culture of learning and innovation through hackathons, online course offerings, and employee-led special interest guilds.
- In time, you will be required to participate in an infrequent on-call rotation as part of the role.
 

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of software and systems delivery experience

• 2+ years of Development and Operations experience on a public cloud platform (AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle)

• 2+ yrs experience with Kubernetes

• 1+ year of experience with software development using Go Lang, Python, Java or equivalent

• 1+ year Linux Scripting experience

Other Qualifications:

• Know/apply SRE fundamentals such as SLO, SLA and SLI

• Experience working cross team in analysis and solution finding

• Experience with general monitoring solutions, crafting dashboards and alerts (e.g. Grafana)

• Continuous Delivery experience, owning your service through to production.

• Experience in Agile environments/Agile development methodologies.

• Experience developing automation solutions, CI/CD tools.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• Can work independently and with the attitude that everything can be automated

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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