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We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
About The Team
Workday, founded in 2005, stands as a groundbreaking force in the human capital and financial management industry, with a global presence and a diverse array of customers. Across our offices worldwide, our teams are united by a shared dedication to innovation, collaboration, and excellence!The Core Services organization is responsible for the foundational technology that powers Workday’s applications and platform products. We design, build, and support a highly-performant distributed system that handles complex workloads at the scale required by the world’s largest organizations. Our infrastructure runs across both Workday data centers and public cloud environments, executing mission-critical business processes, functions, and integrations. The organization's scope spans from the Gateway to the persistence layer, delivering the scalability, reliability, and efficiency needed to support Workday’s rapidly evolving product landscape.Joining our team means embarking on a journey of opportunity to advance your career and contribute to impactful solutions that shape industries. Whether you thrive with solving sophisticated business problems, collaborating with agile teams, or championing innovation and software design, Workday offers an environment where your talents can thrive.
About The Role
We are seeking an experienced Devops and Platform Engineer with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience to join our dynamic team. In this critical role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining our robust and scalable cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Your expertise in deploying and managing storage, compute, caching and control plane solutions will be essential in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of our core platforms.
What You Will Do
- Design and Implement AWS Infrastructure: Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of complex cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS, specifically focusing on compute , storage , caching, networking and control plane services
- Automate and Orchestrate: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of AWS resources.
- CI/CD Pipeline Management: Contribute to the development and maintenance of our continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable software deployments.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure issues.
- Performance Optimisation and Cost Management: Analyse and optimize AWS resource utilisation, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement strategies for efficient cloud operations.
- Security and Compliance: Implement and enforce security best practices within the AWS environment, ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations.
- Troubleshooting and Support: Provide expert-level support for platform-related issues, collaborating with development and operations teams to resolve incidents and implement root cause analyses.
- Documentation: Create and maintain detailed documentation for infrastructure designs, configurations, and operational procedures.
- Collaboration and Mentorship: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, and product managers. Potentially mentor junior engineers and share your expertise.
About You
Basic Qualifications(Required)
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a directly related field.
- 8 years professional software development experience utilising Python or GoLang.
- 3 years of proven experience in cloud engineering, with hands-on experience with either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
- Proven understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including experience with monitoring, alerting, and basic fault analysis.
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK(Solas) stack
- CI/CD and Deployment: Jenkins and Teamcity, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD and Argo Workflow.
- Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes.
Other Qualifications:
- Compute: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda
- Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, RDS
- Infrastructure as Code : CloudFormation, Terraform
- Possession of relevant cloud certifications is a plus, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional, Google Cloud Associate Engineer or similar.
- Experience in designing and implementing automated solutions for build, infrastructure, and software configuration management.
- Familiarity with implementing and adhering to Public Cloud best practices.
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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