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Site Reliability Engineer – SRE – Database Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer – SRE – Database Engineering

CompanyWorkday
LocationMcLean, VA, USA
Salary$106000 – $195500
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

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.

Responsibilities

  • This position is responsible for managing and monitoring 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.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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.