Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Flexible Work

Workday, Inc.; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 112,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Vancouver, BC, Canada seeks a seasoned DevOps engineer to design and operate scalable cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) with a strong focus on automation, monitoring, and performance.

You’ll work with Platform Engineering to deploy changes and ensure reliable environments for millions of users. The role emphasizes automation, IaC, and cost optimization, with a flexible work approach under Workday’s hybrid policy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years DevOps or software development experience.
• 3+ years managing databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.
• 2+ years Kubernetes/EKS and EC2 experience.
• 2+ years Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch monitoring.
• Security-centric in infra as code and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure for distributed architecture.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for reliability and speed.
• Plan infrastructure for fast-growing SaaS and optimize costs.
• Identify performance bottlenecks at infra and app level.
• Collaborate with engineering to meet high SLO/SLA requirements.
• Maintain highly available web and backend systems.
• Secure cloud and application layers (IAM, PKI).
• Expand monitoring and alerting across infra and ops.
• Develop tools to boost developer productivity.

Skills

DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

Go

Python

Bash

Typescript

CI/CD

Monitoring

Security

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

DynamoDB

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Vancouver, BC, Canada seeks a seasoned DevOps engineer to design and operate scalable cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) with a strong focus on automation, monitoring, and performance.

You’ll work with Platform Engineering to deploy changes and ensure reliable environments for millions of users. The role emphasizes automation, IaC, and cost optimization, with a flexible work approach under Workday’s hybrid policy.