Sr. Associate DevOps Engineer

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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

Document Persistent Storage Service provides secure, resilient, and highly scalable persistence with simple, easy-to-use APIs. We build, expand and extend outstanding database, key-value and object storage applications to store and orchestrate documents in a SaaS cloud environment. Our team's ownership is focused primarily on private data centers services but with an eye on growing the public cloud ownership also.

About the Role

Join our dynamic team as a Sr. Associate DevOps Engineer and play a crucial role in building and operating resilient and scalable infrastructure using ground breaking technologies like Chef, Ansible and Public cloud. This is a great opportunity to chip into critical applications where high availability and scalability are paramount. If you are passionate about testing, distributed database systems, concurrency, distributed storage, availability and system design, we encourage you to apply.

About You

You possess a foundational understanding or equivalent practical experience in deploying and operating databases or distributed systems, ideally using tools such as Chef or Ansible. You are eager to immerse yourself in a microservices architecture and chip in to building robust and scalable systems.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure to support critical applications.

• Contribute to the development and operation of restful services, service oriented architectures, distributed systems, cloud systems, and microservices on Linux operating systems or equivalent.

• Apply your experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, or Puppet), containerisation (Docker) to deploy and manage applications.

• Collaborate effectively within a team to achieve common goals, demonstrating strong communication skills and attention to detail.

• Participate in the design, maintenance, and improvement of highly available and fault-tolerant distributed software systems.

• Contribute to and promote a strong testing culture, including unit, system, and integration testing, feature toggles, canary deployments, and gradual rollouts.

• Engage with logging, monitoring, metrics, and statistics technologies to ensure system health and performance.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide support and triage for production services after a training period.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a computer-related field.

• Exposure to Linux operating systems and concepts, including memory and storage management, threading and concurrency, networking and sockets, and process management.

• Proficient in at least one scripting language such as Python, Ruby or Bash.

Other Qualifications (Desirable):

• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with teammates.

• Experience or coursework in areas related to performance and scale, security, availability, deployment, and operations.

• A strong understanding of testing methodologies and quality assurance practices.

• Experience being part of a team responsible for a service in production, including on-call support and incident management.

If you are a motivated DevOps Engineer with a passion for building resilient and scalable systems, and you are excited about working with distributed database systems in a dynamic microservices environment, we encourage you to apply!

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.

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