The role
From Workday's own posting.
Your work days are brighter here.
We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
Our mission is to change the way business deals get done. In an industry plagued by inefficient and ineffective contract management systems, we provide a solution that accelerates, scales, and protects the business, enabling contract professionals to become their company’s superhero.
We create innovative AI technology that makes contracts searchable and simplifies deal-making processes to supercharge business while helping to reduce costs and handle risk. We automate manual work, facilitate collaboration, and streamline operations so businesses can make better decisions.
By reimagining legal documents, we take the stress out of contract management, empowering brilliant people to do their best work while fueling exponential growth.
About the Role
As a DevOps engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments. You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes.
What will you be doing?
Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes.
Forecast and plan for the infrastructure needs of a fast-growing SaaS company and find ways to improve efficiency and cost
Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level
Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers
Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second
Closely collaborating with Developers to setup, configure and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS
Analyze system performance and capacity and plan for future growth
Securing our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)
Building and expanding monitoring and alerting systems for both infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating into established 3rd party SaaS ones.
Establishing comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our entire platform
Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity
Champion automation of manual processes and reducing operational overhead
About You
Basic Qualifications:
5+ years DevOps or software development experience
3+ years of experience building, maintaining and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
2+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2.
2+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem.
2+ years of experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch stack for logging and PagerDuty and alerting.
Other Qualifications:
Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems
Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Typescript)
Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
Familiarity with service mesh concepts and experience implementing one of the service mesh frameworks like Istio or Linkerd with Kubernetes clusters
Production experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters in a high availability cluster such as RabbitMQ, SQS or Kafka
Security centric in all approaches to design in infra as code as well as Docker build pipelines and microservice deployments.
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
T he annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here .
Primary Location: CAN.BC.Vancouver
Primary CAN Base Pay Range: $112,000 - $168,000 CAD
Additional CAN Location(s) Base Pay Range: $112,000 - $168,000 CAD
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.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.c