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Data Platform Engineer - Cybersecurity

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3 days ago
Dublin, IrelandMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Administer, troubleshoot, and maintain cybersecurity data pipelines and the broader data platform, including Splunk during the SIEM-to-IaC transition.
  • Operate the EU Sovereign Region while enforcing European data residency, isolation, access, governance, and compliance requirements.
  • Define and monitor SLIs and SLOs for platform health, compute usage, storage capacity, and pipeline reliability.
  • Write and maintain scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code automation to reduce manual toil, streamline deployments, and enable auto-scaling.
  • Implement resource quotas and technical guardrails, lead incident troubleshooting, and participate in blameless post-mortems.
  • Support Data Engineering and Incident Response teams with a reliable, observable platform.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, cloud infrastructure operations, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.
  • At least 4 years of experience administering enterprise Linux environments.
  • At least 4 years operating AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • At least 2 years of experience with compute, storage, networking, and Identity Access Management.
  • At least 2 years building, maintaining, or operating data pipelines.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Practical experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
  • Hands-on experience writing scripts in Python, Bash, or Go and working with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Understanding of platform, network, application, and cloud security fundamentals and automated security configuration management.
  • Familiarity with data residency, isolation, regulatory compliance, and EU Sovereign requirements.
  • Splunk administration, search, or troubleshooting experience is preferred but not required.
  • Experience with data reliability engineering, data quality monitoring, pipeline SLAs/SLOs, or data observability tooling is preferred.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and communicate effectively with partner teams across global time zones.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides reasonable accommodations and is an equal opportunity employer.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureBashDatadogGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaLinuxPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOps
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About Workday

10,000+ employees

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.

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