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$137,000 – $205,400
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What this role is
This role designs and operates database-as-a-service infrastructure supporting Workday's federal government contracts, requiring expertise in cloud databases, Kubernetes, and backend development. It suits experienced database engineers and cloud infrastructure specialists with security clearance eligibility who can handle complex, large-scale production systems.
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What they ask for
Required
- 6+ years designing, developing, and managing mission-critical production workloads on Aurora MySQL, RDS MySQL, and cloud native databases
- 6+ years database architecture, design, replication, clustering, and HA/DR experience
- 2+ years backend development with modern programming languages (Golang, Python, Java)
- 4+ years hands-on AWS cloud experience
- 4+ years managing clustered, highly-available database services on Linux
- 5+ years modern DevOps technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
- U.S. citizen (naturalized or native)
Nice to have
- DoD 8570/8140 compliance with IAT Level II certification and current Computing Environment credential
- One approved specialty certification (CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, CASP+)
- Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance
- Knowledge of Terraform, Chef, Ansible
- Familiarity with Ceph Storage, Gluster, Orchestrator for MySQL, Percona MHA, Percona Galera, Vitess, Pure Storage
- BS/MS degree in computer science