Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Database Engineering (US Federal)

About the position

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Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor Workday's production Database Infrastructure.
• Focus on automation to improve availability and scalability in our production environments.
• Work with developers to improve database resiliency and improve/implement auto remediation techniques.
• Provide support for large scale database instances across production, non-production and development environments.
• Serve in a rotational on-call and weekly maintenance supporting database infrastructure.

Requirements

• This position requires a TS/SCI with CI POLY security clearance. Applicants must already possess a valid and active TS/SCI with CI POLY security clearance.
• 4+ years experience in designing/developing/automating and managing mission critical production workloads on Aurora MySQL, RDS MySQL and other Cloud naive databases.
• 4+ years experience with database architecture, design, replication, clustering, HA/DR.
• Experience in backend development using modern programming languages (Python, Golang).
• Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of automation tools such as Terraform, Chef and Ansible.
• Experience in modern DevOps technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), service deployment, monitoring and scaling, preferred.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and interpersonal skills. Self-starter, highly motivated and ability to learn quickly.
• Excellent team player with strong collaboration, analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• BS/MS degree in computer science.

Benefits

• Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
• Annual refresh stock grants.