Senior DevOps Engineer - Da Nang
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About the Team
The DevOps Engineering team keeps our cloud environments reliable, available, and high-performing - enabling smooth releases and infrastructure that scales with a large scale SaaS platform.We focus on helping product teams ship quickly and safely, aligning infrastructure with Workday's standards, and automating as much of the software delivery lifecycle as possible. Going forward, we'll keep deepening automation, expanding observability, and driving consistency across environments.
We're a distributed team across the US and Vietnam that operates as one - with real ownership, high accountability, and meaningful, technically challenging work. If you value autonomy, collaborative problem-solving, and improving how complex systems run in production, you'll fit right in.
About the Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in keeping our systems reliable, our releases seamless, and our infrastructure aligned with Workday’s standards. You will bring deep experience in DevOps practices and tooling and apply that experience to real, production-facing challenges every day.
This role is about more than just writing automation. You will evaluate when to automate and when a different approach is the right call. You will identify gaps, take initiative, and drive solutions forward without waiting to be asked. Your ability to see a need and fill it will be one of your greatest assets on this team.
This position includes participation in an on-call rotation to support the availability and reliability of our production services.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable smooth, reliable releases for large-scale cloud applications
Manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency
Implement and maintain Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration using Helm charts and ArgoCD for GitOps-based deployments
Build and improve automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational workflows using GitHub Actions and scripting
Integrate application and infrastructure environments with Workday standards and guardrails, ensuring consistency and compliance across environments
Monitor system health and performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact availability
Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents, driving timely remediation, and contributing to follow-up improvements
Partner closely with development teams to support their infrastructure needs, improve developer experience, and remove friction from the delivery pipeline
Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and practices that improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency
Other duties which are assigned by the Employer or authorized person of the Employer.
About You
Basic Qualifications
Minimum of 7 years of related work experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
Demonstrated history of designing and maintaining Kubernetesenvironments to support scalable, cloud-native production applications.
Demonstrated history of utilizing AWS infrastructure servicesto build and operate production workloads.
Other Qualifications
Proficient in ArgoCDand GitOps practices, with experience implementing continuous delivery workflows that streamline deployments and ensure consistent, auditable changes.
Skilled in Helmchart development and management, including packaging, configuring, and deploying applications to Kubernetes using reusable templates.
Experienced with GitHub Actionsfor building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating testing, builds, and deployments to accelerate delivery.
Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation, with a focus on clear communication, thoughtful incident response, and learning-oriented post-incident reviews.
Able to evaluate processes and make sound decisions about when and how to automate, balancing speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Comfortable working across distributed teams and time zones, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
A self-starter who takes ownership, identifies what needs to be done, and follows through with minimal direction.
Excellence in communication skills in English & Vietnamese.
Excellence teamwork skills and be able to work independently in the team.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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