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At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work. 

About the Team

Do you want to join a fast-paced start-up-like environment while working with innovative technologies to tackle the next generation of complex problems? Workday's Sea Otter team is a full-stack internal startup team within the Workday WFM product organization which offers the best of both worlds!

We are a multi-functional team working on one of Workday's newest innovative products, Workday Scheduling. We believe AI/ML, combined with the best mobile experiences, immersive UIs, secure back-end services along with engineering excellence, provide the most compelling solutions for the market. Join in on a unique opportunity to build software from the ground up with technical ownership at every stage! Are you ready for your next great adventure?

Opportunity Onramps® is a pathway to relaunch your career in the technology industry regardless of your background. We recognize that people do not follow the same path in life or their career. Sometimes people need to take a break from their career. The pause may have been taken for a whole host of reasons including but not limited to: caregiving, illness, unemployment, covid-19 impacts, immigration, asylum or refuge seeking needs. At Workday, we embrace the pause, and the unique perspectives it can provide.

Through our Career Returner program, we provide on-the-job training, mentorship, professional development and a pathway to full time careers for job seekers as they relaunch their careers back into the workforce. This is an immersive 16-week paid program where you’ll make an impact at Workday by engaging in meaningful work, have access to many career growth and skill building opportunities; including networking, training, and ongoing professional development. At the end of the program, participants may also be offered full-time employment by Workday.

To be eligible for the Career Returner program, candidates must have a minimum of three years of prior work experience and a break from their career for at least one and a half years.

About the Role

In this role, you will join a small and forward-thinking team of Software Engineers who enable and support our UI, back-end and QA teams, while ensuring quality, efficiency, resiliency and performance through automation. You will:

• Build new and improve existing CI/CD pipelines.

• Create monitoring and alerting for our product.

• Enhance our technical capabilities with automation and tooling.

• Work on performance benchmarking and instrumentation to highlight investment areas and ensure scalability of our systems.

• Break down silos and increase collaboration by working across our product's components and with cross-organizational teams who support us.

• Design and implement processes to improve resiliency, efficiency, and quality of our product.

• Grow with other developers on the team through brainstorming, design, and code reviews.

• Contribute ideas for the continuous improvement of the team’s productivity, professional enjoyment, code quality, and engineering excellence.

About You

You are a dedicated engineer who is unafraid of challenges and is interested in continuously learning, improving, and working as a team to produce the best outcomes.
 

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ total years of programming in a software development role

• 1+ year experience working with Linux and Linux CLI

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field

• Must be available to start in May 2022

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD tools & technologies, preferably Jenkins.

• Knowledge of one of the following: Groovy, Bash, Scala, Python or experience in at least one programming language.

• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

• Experience with monitoring and alerting platforms, such as Wavefront, Prometheus or Grafana.

• Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management using modern tools. Preferably Terraform.

• Hands-on experience deploying public cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP or Azure.

• Knowledge of network protocols and technologies, such as: VPN, DNS, load balancing, firewalls.