Head of Database Reliability Engineering

JobSpace; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday seeks a visionary Engineering Manager to lead our Database Reliability Engineering team. You will guide a group focused on resiliency, security, and scalable data infrastructure, shaping the future of our data platforms with open-source and cloud-native approaches.

Ideal candidates bring extensive SRE/DBRE leadership, experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems, and a passion for automated, self-healing solutions in hybrid work environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading SRE or Database Engineering teams focused on reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale DB environments.
• 8+ years in software or systems engineering with 4+ years as SRE/DBRE, designing resilient data infrastructure and automated failover.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers focused on resiliency, security, and scalability of the data layer.
• Architect future data infrastructure treating infrastructure as software with open-source and cloud-native solutions.
• Move beyond DBA paradigms by building automated, self-healing platforms.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Linux troubleshooting

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

PMM

Job description

Workday seeks a visionary Engineering Manager to lead our Database Reliability Engineering team. You will guide a group focused on resiliency, security, and scalable data infrastructure, shaping the future of our data platforms with open-source and cloud-native approaches.

Ideal candidates bring extensive SRE/DBRE leadership, experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems, and a passion for automated, self-healing solutions in hybrid work environments.