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

The Tenant Lifecycle Engineering organisation is responsible for pushing new code to our existing customers, along with monitoring the health, performance and reliability of the Workday stack. The Public Cloud team is a specialised team within this organisation responsible for building, configuring, deploying and providing automated tooling to support the Workday application in Public Cloud.

About the Role

As we continue to build new teams and functions to support our global growth, we are looking for a manager to lead a team of engineers dedicated to delivering best in class customer experience in the Public Cloud space, primarily on AWS and GCP. Our team are the Gatekeepers for change rolling out to our Production environments, and we automate cluster build-outs, validation, patch deployment, and other operational tasks.

About You

Do you get excited by leading a team that builds highly performant solutions to solve complex problems?

Do you have a passion for the people you lead, excited to jump in and provide leadership and direction? Do you inspire those around you?

Lead a group of Reliability Engineers, encourage, champion their work, guide them, and bring them to the next level
Schedule upcoming projects and balance workload across your team
Build relationships with other managers and leaders at Workday
Set priorities for team and assign resources
Recruit top talent and find growth opportunities for the whole team
Enhance the performance and skill set of your engineers by promoting mentoring and educational opportunities
Contribute to process improvement and establishing best practices for automation and deployment

Basic Qualifications

3+ years experience leading SRE teams focused on maintaining system reliability and availability.
8+ years experience in software development engineering as an SRE, designing and implementing resilient infrastructure and proactively mitigating potential issues.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualifications

Experience with incident management processes and SRE project management methodologies.
Experience managing teams working with cloud platforms, automation tools, and observability solutions such as AWS, GCP Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, GIT, Argo.
Good understanding of Agile Methodology principles and proven ability to manage SRE teams and projects using agile frameworks.
Understanding of Continual Improvement Process principles and the ability to identify and implement improvements in SRE workflows.
Working knowledge of Continuous Delivery concepts and their integration with SRE practices for reliable deployments.
Good Facilitation skills for leading team meetings and discussions effectively.
Developing Leadership skills in guiding, motivating, and directing an SRE team.
Working knowledge of various Monitoring Tools and the ability to guide their use for effective system observability.
Strong understanding of People Management principles for leading and developing SRE team members.
Developing Personal Initiative in identifying and driving SRE-related opportunities and solutions.
Proven ability to build and maintain strong Relationship Building with development and operations teams.
Understanding of Team Performance concepts and the ability to contribute to improving team effectiveness.
Proven ability to lead Troubleshooting efforts for system incidents.

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.

At Workday, we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience where all candidates can fully demonstrate their skills. If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point, please email accommodations@workday.com.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.

Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.

In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Job Description