Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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About the Team

Workday is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Tenant Lifecycle Engineering team. You'll be responsible for writing and maintaining scripts as well as supporting our automation tools – all of which are critical to the deployment of the Workday Enterprise Business Services. In addition to this you will be involved in upgrading, patching, executing and monitoring the processes that keep the Workday Service up and running in all environments: production, sandbox, and implementation.

You'll do everything from deploying/configuring new services, migrations of existing services, creating scripts, applying patches and updates to all our systems using automation tools all while ensuring that we continue to meet our SLAs.

About the Role

In this role, you will:

• You will be responsible for preparing, automating, monitoring, triaging, refining and executing weekly maintenance and tenant management activities

• Create comprehensive runbooks for both Maintenance Window orchestration and issue remediation creating the specification for automation and self-healing.

• Design autonomic Maintenance Window orchestrations for idempotency, and schedule for execution at a predetermined future date/time

• Collaborate with peers & teams across the business to drive the future direction of improvements to key business functions related to the weekly maintenance window

• Participate in rostered cyclical weekend work & a flexible working schedule

• Be passionate about modern technologies and advocate for innovative approaches to existing systems or work practices

• Work in a collaborative environment, openly sharing your knowledge with others and you enjoy learning from others too!

• This position will be Wednesday-Saturday.

About You

We're looking for someone who has:

• 4+ years of SRE experience in a distributed systems environment.

• 3+ years experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure

• 3+ years experience with Kubernetes

• 2+ years experience with Ansible & Jenkins.

• Proficiency with a programming language such as Python, or Ruby, CHEF and Git plus. 

• Working Knowledge of Apache Tomcat, Zookeeper and Openstack.

• Strong Linux admin, Bash/shell scripting skills.

• The ability to work some nights and weekends is required as part of the patch support rotation and on-call duties.

Bonus points if you have:

• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience.

• Experience handling and solving distributed systems in a public cloud, Passionate automator, with a track record of reference-able examples.

• Experienced with software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD, testing

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

• Skills and enthusiasm to operate, maintain, support and sustain the platform.

• Excited by working in a fast-paced environment. Experience collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams with a diverse set of backgrounds.

• Excellent documentation skills, experience with developing detailed run books, processes

• Takes ownership of tasks and drives to resolution.

• Strong Troubleshooting skills. Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requ

Why Workday?

At Workday, you'll be part of a collaborative and supportive environment where your contributions are valued and your growth is encouraged. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, opportunities for professional development, and the chance to work on challenging and rewarding projects.

Ready to make a real impact?

If you're a skilled SRE who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is eager to contribute to a world-class cloud infrastructure, we encourage you to apply!

Apply now and become a part of our exciting journey!

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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