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Senior DevOps Engineer - Evisort

Workday
Irelandfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Feb 2025

About the role

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

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About the Role

As a Senior 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. You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes.

About You

What will you be doing?

  • 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

Basic Qualifications:

  • 10+ years DevOps experience
  • Demonstrable experience in infrastructure as code frameworks, in particular with Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible.
  • Production experience in creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS, spanning across multiple geographic regions.
  • 3+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2.
  • 3+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem.

Other Qualifications

  • A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Consistent track record of building

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