Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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About the Team

About the Role

Do you want to work for a company that works hard has fun and continues to experience significant growth Do you want to be part of an organization where your contributions directly help scale and sustain that growth

At Workday we are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced challenging environment and enjoys solving complex technical problems at scale.

In this role you will support large-scale MySQL and open-source database environments across production and development systems participate in an on-call rotation for critical production issues drive automation to improve availability and scalability and help architect both existing and new database services in our production environment.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience managing databases for enterprise cloud applications at scale.
• 3 years of experience working with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database environments in private and public cloud platforms including AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with managed cloud databases (AWS Aurora Google Cloud SQL) and core architecture principles (design replication clustering HA/DR backup/restore).
• Background as a Database Engineer/Architect/DRE operating Linux-based clustered open-source and NoSQL technologies (MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Cassandra Redis Riak).
• Proficient in Python or Go with secondary scripting experience (Shell Ruby).
• Proven experience with Linux operating systems and containerised environments.
• Hands-on experience with containerisation (Kubernetes Docker) CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible Chef Git Jenkins Argo).
• Hands-on experience supporting mission-critical production workloads on MySQL PostgreSQL or other open-source databases.
• Proven track record supporting mission-critical high-availability production environments.

Other Qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of MySQL GTID group replication and Galera HA solutions. Familiarity with ecosystem tools like Orchestrator Percona (MHA/Galera) Vitess Ceph Gluster and Pure Storage.
• Solid understanding of IaaS capacity management principles across AWS GCP and private cloud environments.
• Proficiency with GitHub Jira and Confluence alongside excellent technical documentation and communication skills.
• BS/MS in Computer Science a related technical field or equivalent experience.

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