Sr Distributed Systems Engineer (DevOps)

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. 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.

As a Senior Distributed Systems (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

• 7+ years DevOps experience

• 5+ years database administration experience (Postgres, MariaDB, MSSQL)

• 4+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2.

• 4+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem.

At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security.  Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers. 

Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.

In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.