Sr DevOps Engineer

Workday; United States; On-site; USD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain the Workday Community cloud production and development systems. The role emphasizes hands-on AWS deployment, monitoring, automation, and scaling to support enterprise-grade services.

You will work with Dev and QA teams to improve release velocity, developer efficiency, and product quality, leveraging IaC tools and modern cloud-native patterns in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software, systems, or networking development with DevOps focus.
• Experience in designing and operating cloud production and development systems.
• Strong AWS expertise and CI/CD with IaC tooling.
• Proficient in Python and shell scripting.
• Effective communicator and collaborator across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Workday Community cloud systems.
• Deploy, monitor, automate, and manage AWS-based solutions.
• Support CI/CD tooling for development lifecycle and release velocity.
• Maintain visibility of servers, storage, networking, and VMs.
• Collaborate with Dev and QA to support CI/CD tooling.

Skills

DevOps teamwork

Communication

Independent learner

IST timezone collaboration

Tools

Terraform

AWS CodeBuild

CodePipeline

CloudFormation

S3

RDS

CloudWatch

IAM

Elasticache

CDN

Route 53

ECS

Fargate

Docker

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

Your work days are brighter here. We're obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we're shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you'll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We're in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you'll do meaningful work with Workmates who've got your back. In return, we'll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you've found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Join one of Workday's key strategic engineering organizations crafting the future of digital customer success! Our team, Community Engineering, has Join one of Workday's key strategic engineering organizations crafting the future of digital customer success! Our team, Community Engineering, has amazing workmates who are dedicated to building solutions that delight our customers. We collaborate daily and actively encourage each other to innovate and have fun while solving exciting problems.

About the Role

• Responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of Workday Community cloud production and development systems.
• Hands-on in deploying, monitoring, automating and managing enterprise solutions and services in AWS.
• Supports the tools, infrastructure and monitoring that enables the software development lifecycle. Focus on developer efficiency, release velocity, and product quality.
• Maintain an accurate picture of existing server, storage, networking software/hardware and virtual environments to support scaling against various project requirements and production demands.
• Work closely with Dev and QA teams to build and support continuous integration and deployment tooling.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ yrs of software, systems or networking development, with 2+ of those years in a dedicated software development devops engineer role
• A proactive written and verbal communicator and proven collaborator who can work as both a team member and a leader in a group.
• Can work independently and self-teach new systems and designs.
• Ability to work periodically in the evenings with engineers based in the IST time zone
• Comprehensive experience with AWS
• Possession of a solid understanding of CI/CD and be able to build infrastructure as code (IaC) with tools like Terraform, AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline and CloudFormation
• Solid experience with Amazon S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, Elasticache, CDN, and Route 53
• Understanding and proficiency in serverless environments such as ECS, and Fargate.
• Strong proficiency in shell scripting and Python
• Deep troubleshooting skills that involve analysis of logs, tracing traffic, verifying configuration data, and leveraging automation tools to resolve issues until end-to-end systems are functioning.
• Strong proficiency in Docker containerization system administration and troubleshooting

Other Qualifications

• Experience with leveraging AI tools for coding, code reviews, and troubleshooting infrastructure
• Knowledgeable about security, networking, and RDBMS/Database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Redis).
• Experience with deploying and maintaining Discourse and Drupal in AWS, as well as systems within Adobe Cloud.
• Experience with restful services, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, cloud system (AWS) and micro-services.
• Experience with deploying and maintaining Amazon MSK
• Strong vision to put pro-active solutions in place to prevent future problems, and automate processes so that engineers can self-service their operational requirements.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate's compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday's comprehensive benefits, please click here .

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $176,000 USD - $264,000