About the Role

You will have an opportunity to 

• Develop a deep understanding of Workday’s industry leading products and work with talented internal engineering teams to help them deploy to a multi-cloud environment using modern cloud-native orchestration, deployment and monitoring technology
• Work with the upstream community to improve and optimise Istio and Envoy for large scale, high uptime deployments
• Use Istio Service Mesh to deliver innovative service connectivity features to internal services allowing high availability, rapid prototyping, hitless upgrades and continuous deployment
• Help create a centre of excellence for Cloud networking technologies in the Platforms organisation: Ingress, Egress and Service Mesh
• Work closely with infrastructure and vendor teams to align the networking design at all layers with the needs of the business 

• You are passionate about delivering high quality solutions and you are comfortable operating across multiple technology areas: Software Development, CI/CD, configuration management, networking, container orchestration and systems administration.
• You have hands on experience with public cloud infrastructure and tooling and have implemented container orchestration with Kubernetes
• A deep understanding of Container networking, proxies and Service Mesh architecture, design patterns and tooling. In particular, demonstrated expertise and experience with Envoy and Istio.
• Experience with professional Software Development: Golang in particular but experience with other languages such as Python is useful
• You gain energy from learning new things and from solving problems for customers. You have a flexible approach to new challenges and work well as part of a team

Education Qualification

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent professional experience