# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Auckland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/New-Zealand-Auckland/Senior-Site-Reliability-Engineer_JR-0109951-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, challenging environment and enjoys solving complex technical problems at scale.

In this role, you will support large-scale MySQL and open-source database environments across production and development systems, participate in an on-call rotation for critical production issues, drive automation to improve availability and scalability, and help architect both existing and new database services in our production environment.

**Responsibilities:**

- Support large-scale MySQL and open-source database environments

- Participate in on-call rotation for critical production issues

- Drive automation to improve availability and scalability

- Help architect existing and new database services

**Requirements:**

- 7+ years of experience managing databases for enterprise cloud applications at scale

- 3+ years of experience working with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database environments

- Experience with managed cloud databases and core architecture principles

- Background as a Database Engineer/Architect/DRE operating Linux-based, clustered open-source and NoSQL technologies

- Proficient in Python or Go, with secondary scripting experience

- Proven experience with Linux operating systems and containerised environments

- Hands-on experience with containerisation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools

- Hands-on experience supporting mission-critical production workloads on MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other open-source databases

- Proven track record supporting mission-critical, high-availability production environments

**Nice to Have:**

- Deep knowledge of MySQL GTID, group replication, and Galera HA solutions

- Familiarity with ecosystem tools like Orchestrator, Percona, Vitess, Ceph, Gluster, and Pure Storage

- Solid understanding of IaaS capacity management principles

- Proficiency with GitHub, Jira, and Confluence, alongside excellent technical documentation and communication skills

- BS/MS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience

**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 spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners

## Skills

### Required
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- Go
- Linux
- containerisation
- CI/CD pipelines
- infrastructure-as-code tools

### Nice to have
- MySQL GTID
- group replication
- Galera HA solutions
- Orchestrator
- Percona
- Vitess
- Ceph
- Gluster
- Pure Storage
- GitHub
- Jira
- Confluence

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