Cloud Platform Engineering III (Kubernetes)

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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.

About the Team

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 Workday for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter Workday here.

Workday is growing rapidly and is expanding to regions around the world. To enable this growth, we are building an innovative Multi-cloud platform to host thousands of customers seamlessly across public and private clouds. We are responsible for the infrastructure layer of the Workday Public Cloud Platform that delivers and supports Workday products across private and public clouds (e.g. on-premise, AWS, GCP, Azure). We enable Workday's scale: ~50% of Fortune 500 companies, 8000+ customers, 55M+ Workers, ~365B Transactions.

The Cloud Platform Engineering team is responsible for designing, developing, and operating a Kubernetes based public cloud platform to host Workday’s applications.

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.

Our team uses a variety of technologies including Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, GCP, Docker, Golang, Istio, ArgoCD and Tekton.

This team and the platform will empower Workday to deliver products to its customers faster while ensuring highly availability, security, performance and cost efficiency across major public clouds and its own private clouds.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer you will work on design and implementation for the Cloud infrastructure and strategy and architecture for the team.

• Write code and automation to build, operate and maintain the orchestration of the platform.

• Build continuous delivery pipelines to provision/upgrade the platform across regions and clouds through automation.

• Be proactive to identify hotspots in the platform and address them before they trigger incidents.

• Be on top of capacity utilization and ensure capacity is available when the business needs it. Contribute to capacity forecasting.

• Enable cost governance by providing full cost transparency to team members; provide recommendations for cost efficiency.

• Collaborate with multi-functional partner teams and ensure the platform meets their requirements.

• Provide guidelines and standard processes to the multi-functional teams based on infrastructure principles; enable them to deliver services that are highly available, secure, performant and cost effective.

• Help build a successful team by coaching and mentoring team members.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Ruby, Python, Java 8+, or Scala)
• 2+ years working with Kubernetes.
• 2+ years of experience with server orchest