3 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Provide 24/7 operational support for large-scale MySQL and open-source database environments across production and development systems.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for critical production issues and support mission-critical, high-availability workloads.
- Drive automation to improve database availability and scalability.
- Help architect existing and new database services for production environments.
- Evaluate, adopt, and deploy technologies and services into live production environments.
- Operate and support clustered open-source and NoSQL database technologies in cloud and private-cloud environments.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience managing databases for enterprise cloud applications at scale.
- 3+ years of experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL in private and public cloud platforms, including AWS and/or GCP.
- Experience with AWS Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, database design, replication, clustering, high availability/disaster recovery, and backup/restore.
- Experience operating Linux-based clustered open-source and NoSQL technologies, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, and Riak.
- Proficiency in Python or Go, with secondary scripting experience in Shell or Ruby.
- Experience with Linux operating systems, containerized environments, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Git, Jenkins, and Argo.
- Deep knowledge of MySQL GTID, group replication, and Galera HA solutions; familiarity with Orchestrator, Percona MHA/Galera, Vitess, Ceph, Gluster, and Pure Storage.
- Understanding of IaaS capacity management across AWS, GCP, and private-cloud environments.
- Proficiency with GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field for applicable roles.
- Role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- Workday provides reasonable accommodations during the employment application process.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraArgo CDAWSChefDockerGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRedisRubyTerraform
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About Workday
Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.