Site Reliability Engineer

Company: Workday
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: January 17, 2020

Job Description:

Join our team and experience Workday!

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun.

Job Description

About the team:

Once a Workday application is built by our developers it is handed over to the Environments team. This is the team that supports the operations of our applications and services. They manage all environments from production, sandbox, sales, and implementation. This team pushes new code to our existing customers, monitors the health, performance, and reliability of the Workday stack, and in general, "keep the lights on" with 24/7 coverage.

About the role:

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• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks either proactively or when reported by customers
• Work with the customer support group as needed to resolve performance issues in the field
• Explore automation opportunity and develop tools to automate some of the day to day operations tasks
• Provide performance metrics and maintain dashboards to reflect production systems health
• Conceptualize and implement proactive monitoring where possible to catch issues early onDesired Experience:
  
  About you :
  
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  • Overall experience at least 2-3 years of relevant experience in the performance analysis and troubleshooting.
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
  • Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment.
  • The ability to diagnose complex problems and deliver analysis of root causeDesired Skills:
  • Extensive experience in Linux and monitoring
  • Proficiency in bash scripting and development using any of Java, Ruby, Python programming language. Prior experience in development of performance measurement and analysis tools e.g. logparser, monitoring dashboards (Wavefront) is an advantage
  • Data wrangling experience with any of Hadoop, SQL, R, numpy
  • Proficient in JVM technology and JVM troubleshooting skills are a must have. Good understanding and hands-on experience of advanced programming concepts (e.g. threads, exceptions and I/O, memory management) in java technology stack is required.
  • Exposure to hive technology stack for any kind of data mining skill is desired.
  • Proficient in writing database queries using SQL and Hive queries
    
    Our Techstack: Linux, Java

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