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Senior SRE or DevOps Engineer

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
Looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, scale, and maintain infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
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Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

We’re a small SRE team based in Chennai and Prague, supporting the People Analytics product. We work with modern technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Jenkins, and rely on strong alerting and monitoring practices as part of our daily operations. Our team collaborates closely with colleagues in the Czech Republic, USA and India, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across a global environment.

About the Role

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help us build, scale, and maintain robust systems that enable high availability, reliability, and performance across our infrastructure. Your work will have a direct impact on the product, and our customers

About You

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or a related field (such as Systems Administration, Monitoring, Alerting, or Infrastructure), designing and implementing resilient infrastructure, and proactively identifying and mitigating potential issues.

  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).

  • Strong experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins) and familiarity with the CNCF Continuous Integration & Delivery ecosystem (landscape.cncf.io).

  • Proficiency in Bash and Python scripting for automation and tooling.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Deep understanding of Design for Maintainability principles and their application in scalable system architectures.

  • Proven experience in designing and implementing process automations using advanced scripting and tooling to improve reliability and efficiency.

  • Strong knowledge of Reliability Analysis and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies to identify and address critical failure modes.

  • Solid grasp of Reliability Engineering principles to drive system availability and performance improvements.

  • Experience defining, monitoring, and alerting on Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) and related metrics.

  • Develop and maintain SRE tooling using strong scripting skills, primarily with Bash. Basic knowledge of Python is required; Golang experience is a plus.

  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Development, Operations, and Security teams to drive reliability-focused initiatives.

  • Excellent technical documentation skills, with experience creating detailed architectural and operational documentation.

  • Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems, leveraging observability and diagnostics tools.

  • You communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.

  • You thrive in a fast-paced, global environment, collaborating with teams across the USA and India.

  • You enjoy solving complex problems and thinking critically to improve reliability and performance.

  • You take ownership of monitoring, alerting, and automation, ensuring systems run smoothly.

  • You work seamlessly with engineering, operations, and product teams to drive continuous improvement.

  • You understand SLOs, observability, and incident response principles and apply them in practice.


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.


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Top Skills

AWS
Bash
Docker
GCP
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Python

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