DevOps Engineer (GitOps & ArgoCD)

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About the Team

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About The Team:
The Workday Patch Evolution team is looking for a highly motivated Software Development Engineer to join our growing team. Our team focuses on helping Workday to deliver software in a modern, declarative, git-ops driven manner. We work with partners from across Workdays engineering teams and utilise exciting CNCF tools, modern software development processes and advocate for improving Workday processes.

About the Role

In this role you will be central to our efforts in moving Workday deployment to a git-ops driven Argo Workflow / Argo CD based tooling. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting our deployment tooling, using tools like ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Grafana and many others. You will work closely with SRE, Operations, and service teams to ensure smooth and reliable deployments of our applications

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain GitOps driven deployment tooling using ArgoCD and Argo Workflows.

• Find opportunities to automate operations in Workdays public cloud (AWS/GCP) Kubernetes environments, including resource definitions and configurations.

• Automate the build, test, and deployment processes for our teams software artifacts.

• Collaborate with service teams to integrate their applications into the GitOps workflow.

• Triage and resolve deployment issues, ensuring high availability and reliability of our environments.

• Monitor and optimize the performance of our deployment tooling.

• Implement and maintain security methodologies within the deployment tooling.

• Improve the operational posture of our SRE and operations teams through use of enhanced observability available through CNCF tooling.

• Document and maintain our deployment processes and procedures.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in GitOps and Kubernetes.

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of our development practices.

About You

Required Skills and Experience:

• BSc, MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years industry experience

• Proven experience with GitOps or equivalent experience.

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes and its core concepts (Pods, Deployments, Services, etc.).

• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD and Argo Workflows.

• Proficiency in using Git and Git workflows.

• Experience with CI/CD tools and methodologies.

• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker).

• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Ruby, Groovy, Python).

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Understanding of security methodologies in a cloud-native environment.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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