Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Multi-cloud Platform

Company: Workday, Inc.
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: January 16, 2023

Job Description:

Do what you love. Love what you do.At Workday, we help the world's largest organizations adapt to what's next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.About the TeamAre you an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with who loves the challenge of automating, operating and improving state-of-the-art cloud native service platforms? Do you love digging into a production problem and seeing it through to resolution and follow through?We're the team that deploys, operates and supports our cloud native technology platform that was designed from scratch for the cloud. We own the reliability for the complete stack and tools that delivers and supports Workday products across public clouds (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure).The platform is built using Cloud Native technologies (CNCF), on a foundation of Kubernetes in Public Cloud environments. This provides a secure platform on which Workday service teams, and Platform development teams can build and test their pre-release code, through deployment to production on a continuous basis.Are you a Site Reliability Engineer with who loves the challenge of automating, operating and improving pioneering cloud native service platforms? Do you love digging into a production problem and seeing it through to resolution and follow through?We're the team that deploys, operates and supports our cloud native technology platform that was designed from scratch for the cloud. We lead the reliability for the complete stack and tools that delivers and supports Workday products across public clouds (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure).The platform is built using Cloud Native technologies (CNCF), on a foundation of Kubernetes in Public Cloud environments. This provides a secure platform on which Workday service teams, and Platform development teams can build and test their pre-release code, through deployment to production on a continuous basis.Engineers from this team have shared their experiences at Cloud Native conferences, including KubeCon.About the RoleThe primary function of the SRE team is to ensure the reliability and availability of the platform to meet the desired SLAs, reduce operational load and to scale sustainably in alignment with business growth.

• Be a key member of team of dedicated SREs responsible for software engineering and operations, with an emphasis on reducing operational toil.
• Automation and improvement is planned by following scrum practices with two week sprints.
• The scrum team is autonomous - on-call function is follow-the-sun
• Tech stack is Cloud Native (Kubernetes, Istio, OPA, GoLang, Prometheus, Grafana etc)
• Responsible for the safe change and reliability of customer environments, with SLO gated multi-stage deployment automation. Mission is to improve platform reliability, observability and overall customer satisfaction.
• Develop and launch effective SLIs to ensure that SLOs are achieved through building an extendable Observability architecture, runbook automation, and establishing new processes.
• Partner with platform service teams to craft and implement a range of SRE standards for their respective services to meet. Define benchmarks and automation to qualify services to move to production environments.About YouYour passion for identifying and solving problems on distributed environments scaling across configuration, Linux Operating System and network. You have hands-on experience handling distributed environments (Kubernetes experience is a big plus). You have a keen interest in improving operational efficiency, and believe that automation is the key to operating large-scale systems. You are driven to ensure customer success.Basic Qualifications:
  • BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience
  • 3+ years in handling and solving distributed systems in a public cloud
  • 1-2 years of SRE experience in a distributed systems environment.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with Linux
  • Proficiency with a programming language such as GoLang, Python, or Ruby (preferably GoLang (Go))
  • Experienced with software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD, testingOther Qualifications:
    • Passionate automator, with a track record of referenceable examples.
    • 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 runbooks, processesAs a federal contractor, -Workday -is -requiring -all new hires -to verify -that -they -are -fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 -within 72 hours of -beginning employment with Workday, consistent with applicable law. -Workday -is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates who are not vaccinated due to a sincerely held religious belief, medical reasons, or other legally-protected reason should contact - -to explore what, if any, reasonable accommodations or exemptions Workday is able to offer.Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

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