Description
We’re Workday, a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team.
About the Team Our mission is to change the way business deals get done. We provide a solution that accelerates, scales, and protects the business, enabling contract professionals to become their company’s superhero.
About the Role As a DevOps engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments.
Responsibilities
- Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
- Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes
- Forecast and plan for the infrastructure needs of a fast-growing SaaS company and find ways to improve efficiency and cost
- Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level
- Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers
- Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second
- Closely collaborating with Developers to setup, configure and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS
- Analyze system performance and capacity and plan for future growth
- Securing our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)
- Building and expanding monitoring and alerting systems for both infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating into established 3rd party SaaS ones
- Establishing comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our entire platform
- Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity
- Champion automation of manual processes and reducing operational overhead
Requirements
- 5+ years DevOps or software development experience
- 3+ years of experience building, maintaining and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
- 2+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2
- 2+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem
- 2+ years of experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch stack for logging and PagerDuty and alerting
Nice to Have
- Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems
- Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
- Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Typescript)
- Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
- Familiarity with service mesh concepts and experience implementing one of the service mesh frameworks like Istio or Linkerd with Kubernetes clusters
- Production experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters in a high availability cluster such as RabbitMQ, SQS or Kafka
- Security centric in all approaches to design in infra as code as well as Docker build pipelines and microservice deployments
Salary $112,000 - $168,000 CAD
Flexible Work We offer a flexible work arrangement, spending at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field.