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 TeamDatabase Engineering: Establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables, such as conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan and security policy. Documents and communicates database design. Evaluates and installs database management systems. Codes complex programs and derives logical processes on technical platforms. Provides expertise in devising, negotiating and defending the tables and fields provided in the database. Adapts business requirements, developed by staff and system engineers, and develops the data, database specifications, and table and element attributes for an application. Determines appropriateness of data for storage and optimal storage organization. Determines how tables relate to each other and how fields interact within the tables for a relational model.Opportunity Onramps® is a pathway to relaunch your career in the technology industry regardless of your background. We recognize that people do not follow the same path in life or their career. At Workday, we embrace the pause, and the unique perspectives it can provide.Through our Career Returner programme, we provide on-the-job training and mentorship. Participants will make an impact at Workday by engaging in significant work, have access to many career growth and skill building opportunities; including networking, training, and ongoing professional development.About the RoleWorkday Strategic Sourcing is a leading provider in cloud-based strategic sourcing solutions that help organizations source faster and achieve better business outcomes. Strategic Sourcing has a direct impact on Workday’s ability to deliver a comprehensive source-to-pay strategic sourcing offering, elevating the office of procurement in strategic importance and transforming the procurement function. We are looking for a Database Engineer to help us build for the future and revamp our persistence architecture and ensure our database systems are operating flawlessly 24/7. We are currently growing our teams in Dublin and Riga.You would be joining an architecture team that is responsible for a wide range of tasks to ensure stability, performance and scalability of our systems and engineering practices. Lately we have been busy working on our codebase modularisation, helping product teams to introduce data encryption, ensuring we have a durable, self-healing background processing system just to name a few. We face daily challenges with problems that do not have obvious or simple solutions. We are excited to meet team members that are self-sufficient and purpose driven and able to align to the business goals and long term strategic direction. You will be working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application. We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing. This role requires a person that :understands database performance and our current workloadshas a good knowledge of connection management and how system resources are used on a database serveris familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it. We are also interested to hear about:working with databases that cross-regions/datacentersworking with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application frameworkAbout YouBasic Qualifications2+ years of experience in a similar position such as Database Administrator, Database EngineerAt least 2 years of experience in managing and maintaining of PostgreSQL database clustersExperience in optimizing SQL queriesExperience in developing and maintaining database functions and procedures written in pl/pgsqlExperience in PostgreSQL specific database featuresWe are open to individuals from a wide range of backgrounds. This role is also suitable if you are a Career Returner with an extensive career break for a whole host of reasons including but not limited to: caregiving, illness, unemployment, covid-19 impacts, immigration, asylum or refuge seeking needs.Other QualificationsExperience in cloud and managed database services, such as AWS RDS for PostgreSQLExperience in multi-tenanted databasesExperience in shell scriptingExperience in tools in PostgreSQL ecosystemHelm, Terraform, and Kubernetes knowledgeKnowledge on creating and maintaining of docker containersDocker-compose knowledgeUnderstand codes written in Ruby and PythonOur 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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