About the Role
You must enjoy the fast pace of a SaaS company, where the requirements for the data center infrastructure will change rapidly. Your daily work will have a direct impact on our customers and our business. In this role you will work and grow in a collaborative distributed team, sharing responsibility for maintaining the uptime of Workday’s production and development environments. Contribute to the development of software solutions by employing an Infrastructure-as-code model to build, scale, monitor, maintain and improve the operational support of our rapidly growing server infrastructure. Grow our efficiency by eliminating toil through automation. Work closely with internal teams and our customers to help resolve complex incidents.
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering or equivalent industry work experience
- 7-10 years experience supporting sophisticated large scale environments consisting of thousands of servers.
- Proficiency in at least one of the following functional languages: Ruby, Go, C, Java or Python
- Familiarity with how to perform build automation and provisioning tasks through terraform, chef, ansible, k8s, etc. Familiarity with Hashicorp tools such as Vault.
- Experience running and maintaining a 24x7 Internet-oriented production environment, preferably across multiple data centers both in the Public and Private Cloud. Deep UNIX/Linux systems knowledge and/or systems administration background (CentOS, RedHat etc).
- Understanding of enterprise level thinking with regards to security, scalability, performance, monitoring, reliability, documentation, root cause analysis and capacity-trending.
