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DevOps Engineer

Workday16 days ago
Vancouver, Toronto, Denver
$122,400 - $217,200/yearly
Mid Level

Top Benefits

401k plan
Company equity
Vision and dental insurance

About the role

Who you are

  • 5+ years DevOps experience
  • 2+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2
  • 2+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem
  • A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Demonstrable experience in infrastructure as code frameworks, in particular with Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible
  • Production experience in creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS, spanning across multiple geographic regions
  • Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Typescript)
  • Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
  • Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
  • Passion to optimize and automate
  • Autoscaling and autohealing of infrastructure
  • Strong hands on experience with the AWS ecosystem
  • Familiarity with service mesh concepts and experience implementing one of the service mesh frameworks like Istio or Linkerd with Kubernetes clusters (circuit breaking, failure injection, retries and timeouts on the data-plane proxy level, canary deployments using weight based routing for pods and services, etc’)
  • Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch stack for logging and PagerDuty and alerting
  • Experience building, maintaining and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
  • Experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters in a high availability cluster such as RabbitMQ, SQS or Kafka
  • A passion for automation and integrating with build systems such as GitHub, GitLab CI
  • Security centric in all approaches to design in infra as code as well as Docker build pipelines and microservice deployments
  • Ability to quickly learn complex systems and environments, from the network through the application

What the job involves

  • As a DevOps engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments
  • You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes
  • Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
  • Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes
  • Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level
  • Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers
  • Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second
  • Closely collaborating with Developers to setup, configure and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS
  • Securing our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)
  • Building and expanding monitoring and alerting systems for both infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating into established 3rd party SaaS ones
  • Establishing comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our entire platform
  • Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity
  • Champion automation of manual processes and reducing operational overhead

The application process

  • End Date: August 1, 2025

Benefits

  • 401k plan
  • Company equity
  • Vision and dental insurance
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance
  • On-site health clinic (Pleasanton office)
  • Virtual primary care
  • Flexible time-off policy
  • Global mental health resources
  • Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
  • Global well-being days
  • $25k fertility/family planning benefits
  • North Star financial wellness
  • Retirement funds and matching

About Workday

Software Development
10,000+

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics are built with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core to help organizations around the world embrace the future of work. Workday is used by more than 10,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500.