Manager, Database Reliability Engineering
Job Posting Date: 15 Jan, 2025
* Experience: 8 to 11 Years
* Location: Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Australia
At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. A culture driven by our value of putting our people first has been central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is essential for success in business. We look after our people, communities, and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don't need to hide who you are.
Job Description
Your work days are brighter here.
Are you a leader with a strong background in Database Administration, Data Reliability Engineering, and Data Engineering? Do you have the technical expertise to drive innovative solutions and a proven track record in managing resources and stakeholders to ensure smooth business operations and enhance productivity and efficiency?
The Database Engineering team at Workday designs, builds, develops, maintains, and supervises database infrastructure, ensuring that all of Workday's data-related needs are met with dedication and scale while providing high availability that our customers expect from Workday. We are a fast-paced and diverse team responsible for designing, automating, managing, and running databases on Private and Public Cloud Platforms. Our team is the driving force behind all Workday operations, providing crucial support for all Lifecycle Engineering Operations.
About the Role
To oversee our database reliability engineering in Chennai, Workday is seeking a Manager, Site Reliability Engineering. This position is essential to providing our customers with dependable and highly available database infrastructure for their mission-critical workloads. As a leader, you will guide DBAs and database engineers to achieve excellence by emphasizing dependability and availability and improving database performance. You will serve in a rotational on-call capacity and support regular upgrades and patches to maintain security vulnerabilities. The objective is to achieve database infrastructure resilience across multiple environments and the cloud.
About You
Basic Qualifications:
* 2 years of experience directly managing teams supporting mission-critical production workloads on MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL, and other Cloud native databases.
* 8 years of experience with design, development, management of database administration and development using MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL, and other Cloud native databases.
* Hands-on experience with at least one Cloud technology: AWS, GCP, and/or other clouds managing clustered, highly available database services deployed on different flavors of Linux.
* Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent work experience.
Other Qualifications:
* Experience with database architecture, design, replication, clustering, HA/DR.
* Working experience in multiple languages such as shell, python, ruby, etc.
* Good working knowledge of GitHub, JIRA, Confluence.
* Outstanding team player with considerable analytical, collaborative, and written communication abilities.
* Ability to explain complicated technological concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).
Locations
Flex
* Job Function: IT Software: Software Products & Services
* Industry: Technology (IT, Telecom, Dot Com etc) (Other Technology Services)
Job Id: 70975337
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