Site Reliability Engineer - Multicloud Platform

Description

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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

Requirements

• 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.
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