Software Developer - Network Automation

Company: Workday
Company: Workday
Location: Ireland, Dublin
Commitment: Full Time
Posted on: 2024-03-08 05:00
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.About the TeamWorkday delivers world class SaaS to help businesses manage their people, processes, and finances. Our Infrastructure organisation builds and operates the technology platform upon which this service is delivered from our global data centres.The Network Automation team develops software solutions to build, scale, and maintain our rapidly growing data centre network infrastructure. We are a team of hardworking and creative engineers who like to think strategically. Our goal is to help our product teams to easily build new networks and features with high availability and performance. Come join us and create a framework of outstanding network tools and services for our customers!About the RoleCollaborate with our network engineering, build, and operations teams to understand their use-cases and deliver effective solutions.Use your Python skills to solve sophisticated network problems.Analyse, simplify and automate existing customer workflows.Help evolve our current network automation services to meet architecture goals, discover scaling challenges and address feature gaps.Use pipeline automation to rapidly and safely deliver solutions to production, collect feedback and iterate.About YouBasic QualificationsHave 5+ yrs of software, systems or networking experience - 3+ of those years in a dedicated software or network automation role.Scripting and programming proficiency in PythonPassionate about automation and have delivered network automation solutions to replace fragile and error-prone manual processesHave experience working with internal customers to identify and deliver the highest impact workOther QualificationsHave built and maintained tools to support large-scale network deployment and operations in a production environmentExperience in other programming languages such as Go or RustKnowledge of REST APIs, Flask or SQLHave worked with configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, and TerraformExperience in building and optimising CI pipelines with tools such as JenkinsFull stack observability tools (e.g., Telegraf, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)Familiarity with Cisco NX-OS and IOS, JunOS, F5Public cloud networkingAI/ML (Pattern detection, anomaly detection, machine learning)SDN / overlay network architecturesThorough knowledge deploying and running linux containers using Docker, Kubernetes, or NomadProficient in Linux administration, preferably CentOS/RHELSolid understanding of TCP/IP networking, BGP, OSPF, switching, and routing protocolsExperience developing REST API’sData modeling/structuresHuman-readable data-serialization language (e.g., YAML)CI/CD tools, NetDevOps practicesOur Approach to Flexible Work With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.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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