Site Reliability Engineer - Multicloud Platform

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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 The primary function of the SRE team is to ensure the reliability and availability of the platform to meet the desired SLAs, reduce operational load and to scale sustainably in alignment with business growth. Be a key member of team of versatile SREs responsible for software engineering and operations, with an emphasis on reducing operational toil. Automation and improvement is planned by following scrum practices with two week sprints. The scrum team is autonomous - on-call function is follow-the-sun Tech stack is Cloud Native (Kubernetes, Istio, OPA, GoLang, Prometheus, Grafana etc) Responsible for the safe change and reliability of customer environments, with SLO gated multi-stage deployment automation. Mission is to improve platform reliability, observability and overall customer happiness. Develop and launch effective SLIs to ensure that SLOs are achieved through building an extendable Observability architecture, runbook automation, and establishing new processes. Partner with platform service teams to craft and implement a range of SRE standards for their respective services to meet. Define benchmarks and automation to qualify services to move to production environments. About the Role Are you a Site Reliability Engineer with who loves the challenge of automating, operating and improving innovative cloud native service platforms? Do you love digging into a production problem and seeing it through to resolution and follow through? We’re the team that deploys, operates and supports our cloud native technology platform that was designed from scratch for the cloud. We own the reliability for the complete stack and tools that delivers and supports Workday products across public clouds (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure). The platform is built using Cloud Native technologies (CNCF), on a foundation of Kubernetes in Public Cloud environments. This provides a secure platform on which Workday service teams, and Platform development teams can build and test their pre-release code, through deployment to production on a continuous basis. Engineers from this team have shared their experiences at Cloud Native conferences, including KubeCon About You Basic Qualification 2+ years experience in software development engineering, preferably within a SaaS environment. 2+ years experience in the Go or python (preferably Go) Exposure to Kubernetes Other Qualification Basic understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) principles Solid understanding of Software Development principles Proven ability in Team Collaboration within a software development team. Workday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only) Listed below is the base salary range applicable to this position. Workday pay ranges (and the precise pay offered to the successful candidate) are based on a number of objective criteria such as relevant experience and skills, and educational qualifications, level of responsibility, demands of the role, work location and business need. 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 awarded by Workday Inc. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here . Primary Location Base Pay Range: €56,800 EUR - €85,200 EUR Ireland 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). 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