Senior Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)

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About the Team

Do you thrive on automation and love tackling complex challenges?

Workday is looking for a passionate and experienced Sr Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic Tenant Lifecycle Engineering (TLE) Public Cloud Operations team in Auckland. We're a distributed team responsible for the health, performance, and reliability of the Workday application in the public cloud. We're passionate about automation, efficiency, and building a world-class cloud infrastructure.

About the Role

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

In this role, you will:

• Be a key contributor in building a user-friendly, scalable, and reliable tools framework.

• Automate cluster buildouts, validation, patch deployment, and other operational tasks.

• Collaborate closely with other Environments teams to ensure seamless operations.

• Mentor and guide fellow team members, sharing your expertise and knowledge.

• Design and analyze large-scale distributed systems.

• Implement, design, and deploy solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, and Serverless technologies.

• Apply your expertise in AWS or Google Cloud Platform.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• This position requires a TS/SCI with CI polygraph security clearance. Applicants must already possess a valid and active TS/SCI with CI polygraph security clearance

• 3+ years experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, GoLang, or Java.

• 3+ years experience with orchestration and deployment tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.

• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• 3+ years experience implementing, designing, deploying: Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless (Lambda’s).

• 3+ years experience wit one or more: AWS or Google Cloud Platform.

Other Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Software Engineering or a related field.

• High degree of comfort in Object-Oriented and Functional Programming.

• Strong background in Linux and Shell Scripting.

• Experience with CI tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, or Artifactory.

• Experience with SQL and MySQL databases.

• Excellent documentation skills.

• Loves solving the complexities of orchestrating deployments.

• Dislikes doing things twice and automates every step of the way.

• Strives to make things self-healing, elastic, automatic, repeatable, and well-tested.

• Is passionate about technology and enjoys exploring new tools and techniques to improve automation.

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