Manager, Database Reliability Engineering

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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.

About the Team

Are you a leader with a strong background in Database Administration, Data Reliability Engineering and Data Engineering space? Do you have the technical expertise to drive innovative solutions and a proven track record in managing resources and stakeholders to ensure smooth business operations and enhance productivity and efficiency?

The Database Engineering team at Workday designs, builds, develops, maintains, and supervises database infrastructure, ensuring that all of Workday's data related needs are met with dedication and scale, while providing high availability that our customers expect from Workday. We are a fast paced and diverse team of database specialists and software engineers responsible for designing, automating, managing, and running the databases on Private and Public Cloud Platforms. Our team is the driving force behind all Workday operations, providing crucial support for all Lifecycle Engineering Operations. We ensure that Workday’s maintenance and releases proceed without a hitch and are at the forefront of accelerating the transition to the Public Cloud.
We enable Workday’s Customer Success- 60% of Fortune 500 companies, 8000+ customers, 55M+ Workers, ~365B Transactions - and we’re continuously inventing to accelerate and enable Workday’s growth.

About the Role

To oversee our database reliability engineering in Chennai, Workday is seeking a Manager, Site Reliability Engineering.  This crucial position is essential to our goal of providing our customers with dependable and highly available database infrastructure for their mission-critical workloads.  As a leader, you will lead DBAs and database engineers to achieve excellence by emphasizing dependability and availability and improving database performance. Serve in a rotational on-call and weekly maintenance supporting database infrastructure. Support regular upgrades and patches to maintain security vulnerabilities. Support database scalability by partnering with platform, service, and performance teams for maintaining SLAs. The objective is to achieve database infrastructure resilience across a multitude of environments and the cloud. Join us on this exciting journey and play a key role in shaping the future of Workday.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience directly managing teams supporting mission critical production workloads on MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL and other Cloud native databases.
• 8+ years of experience with design, develop, manage database administration and development using MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL and other Cloud native databases.
• Hands-on experience with at least one Cloud technology: AWS, GCP and/or other clouds managing clustered, highly available database services deployed on different flavors of Linux.
• Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience

Other Qualifications:

• Experience with database architecture, design, replication, clustering, HA/DR 
• Working experience in multiple languages such as shell, python, ruby etc. 
• Good working knowledge of GitHub, JIRA confluence 
• Outstanding team player with considerable analytical, collaborative, and written communication abilities
• Demonstrate a great ability to explain complicated technological concepts to audiences who are both technical and nontechnical.

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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