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.
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About the Team
The Cloud Platform Engineering team is responsible for designing, developing, and operating a Kubernetes based public cloud platform to host Workday's applications.Our team uses a variety of technologies including Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, GCP, Docker, Golang, Istio, ArgoCD, Tekton.
This team and the platform will empower Workday to deliver products to its customers faster while ensuring highly availability, security, performance and cost efficiency across major public clouds and its own private clouds.
About the Role
This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).
We're looking for a motivated engineer who is committed to cloud native principles. The right candidate will be able to drive Workday's public cloud platform development, understand other teams' needs for the platform, discuss solutions with architects and business partners, and mentor junior members of the team. If you are an innovative and energetic teammate with a passion for cloud related technologies we'd love to hear from you.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will work on design and implementation for the Cloud infrastructure and strategy and architecture for the team.
Write code and automation to build, operate and maintain the orchestration of the platform.
Build continuous delivery pipelines to provision/upgrade the platform across regions and clouds through automation.
Be proactive to identify hotspots in the platform and address them before they trigger incidents.
Be on top of capacity utilization and ensure capacity is available when the business needs it. Contribute to capacity forecasting.
Enable cost governance by providing full cost transparency to team members; provide recommendations for cost efficiency.
Collaborate with multi-functional partner teams and ensure the platform meets their requirements.
Provide guidelines and standard processes to the multi-functional teams based on infrastructure principles; enable them to deliver services that are highly available, secure, performant and cost effective.
Help build a successful team by coaching and mentoring team members.
About You
Are you a hardworking, creative and driven team member who can support us in our mission to develop a world class public cloud platform to support the Workday and its Customers?
If you like trying new techniques and approaches to sophisticated problems, love to learn new technologies, are a natural collaborator and an excellent teammate who brings out the best in everyone around you, then give us a shout!
We're looking for a motivated engineer who is committed to cloud native principles. The right candidate will be able to drive Workday's public cloud platform development, understand other teams' needs for the platform, discuss and deliver solutions with architects and business partners. If you are an innovative and energetic teammate with a passion for cloud related technologies, we'd love to hear from you.
Basic Qualifications:
Senior Software Development Engineer
7+ years of experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Java 8+, or Scala)
7+ years of experience running server orchestration solutions in production (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, or other solutions)
4+ Cloud platform experience: AWS, GCP or Azure
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Other Qualifications
In practice experience designing and building a microservices architecture and automation solutions
Significant knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux and Terraform
Ability to work cross functionally with multiple stakeholders (including product management, workmates as well as external teams using our platform)
Experience working in an Agile environment with Agile development methodologies
Knowledge of Storage, Networking, Systems, configuration management
Foundational understanding of standard methodologies for Cloud Native infrastructure management and operations
Sound understanding of CI/CD principles and standard methodologies
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate's compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday's comprehensive benefits, please click here.
Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta
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.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
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