Site Reliability Engineer

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 is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Tenant Lifecycle Engineering team. You'll be responsible for writing and maintaining scripts as well as supporting our automation tools – all of which are critical to the deployment of the Workday Enterprise Business Services. In addition to this you will be involved in upgrading, patching, executing and monitoring the processes that keep the Workday Service up and running in all environments: production, sandbox, and implementation. You'll do everything from deploying/configuring new services, migrations of existing services, creating scripts, applying patches and updates to all our systems using automation tools all while ensuring that we continue to meet our SLAs.About the RoleYou will be responsible for preparing, automating, monitoring, triaging, refining and executing weekly maintenance and tenant management activitiesCreate comprehensive runbooks for both Maintenance Window orchestration and issue remediation creating the specification for automation and self-healing.Design autonomic Maintenance Window orchestrations for idempotency, and schedule for execution at a predetermined future date/timeCollaborate with peers & teams across the business to drive the future direction of improvements to key business functions related to the weekly maintenance windowParticipate in rostered cyclical weekend work & a flexible working scheduleBe passionate about modern technologies and advocate for innovative approaches to existing systems or work practicesWork in a collaborative environment, openly sharing your knowledge with others and you enjoy learning from others too!This position will be Wednesday-Saturday.About YouBasic Qualifications: 4+ years of SRE experience in a distributed systems environment.3+ years experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure3+ years experience with Kubernetes2+ years experience with Ansible & Jenkins.Proficiency with a programming language such as Python, or Ruby, CHEF and Git plus. Working Knowledge of Apache Tomcat, Zookeeper and Openstack.Strong Linux admin, Bash/shell scripting skills.The ability to work some nights and weekends is required as part of the patch support rotation and on-call duties.Other Qualifications:BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience.Experience handling and solving distributed systems in a public cloud, Passionate automator, with a track record of reference-able examples.Experienced with software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD, testingCan 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 run books, processesTakes ownership of tasks and drives to resolution.Strong Troubleshooting skills. Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.Our 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!