Site Reliability Engineer

at  Dayforce

Location: Work is what you do, not where you go. For this role, we are open to remote work and can hire anywhere in Australia
About the Opportunity
Site Reliability Engineers bridge the gap between development and operations organizations and facilitate effective collaboration which leads to faster feature delivery and elevated service quality overall.
Join the pioneering Site Reliability Engineering team at Dayforce, where we lead the charge in ensuring our state-of-the-art products set new benchmarks in scalability, availability, and reliability. We embrace the SRE engagement model to deliver exceptional performance. As a member of our team, you’ll help build and maintain a suite of internal tools that proactively alert, report, and autonomously remediate Dayforce’s environments, ensuring seamless service. We’re committed to proactive solutions, crafting robust processes, empowering our talented developers with the latest technology, and engineering innovative remedies to prevent issues from recurring. If you’re passionate about pushing the boundaries in site reliability engineering, join us at Dayforce and become part of a team that thrives on challenges and celebrates continuous improvement. Elevate your career with us and be a part of a transformative journey in the world of SRE.

What you’ll get to do

• Learn about Dayforce’s cloud infrastructure and the applications that run on them to build a full mental model of how the Dayforce ecosystem works.
• Onboard new features into the SRE operating model.
• Work on projects to improve Dayforce’s reliability, SRE processes and automate away day-to-day toil.
• Participate in incidents, investigate root cause, and remediate Dayforce environment issues.
• Create runbooks and reusable runbook components.
• Contribute to the inner source SRE repository.
• Develop trusted relationships with all parts of Dayforce’s business.
• PagerDuty On-Call rotations as required.

Skills and experiences we value

• Self-starter and passionate individual willing to learn new concepts and technologies as well as contributing to the SRE powered ecosystem.
• Working experience as an SRE, System Administrator, Network Engineer, Database Administrator or Software Engineer
• Experience with Cloud Platforms (Azure Preferred)
• Experience with at least one object-oriented programing language (C# and Java preferred).
• Experience with at least one scripting language (Python and PowerShell preferred).
• Experience with at least one relational database engine and querying language as well as the management of those databases (MSSQL / TSQL and Postgres / PLSQL preferred).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills are mandatory.

What would make you really stand out

• Experience developing internal tools used to eliminate operational toil.
• Experience as a seasoned incident commander.
• Working knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of Terraform.

• Learn about Dayforce’s cloud infrastructure and the applications that run on them to build a full mental model of how the Dayforce ecosystem works.
• Onboard new features into the SRE operating model.
• Work on projects to improve Dayforce’s reliability, SRE processes and automate away day-to-day toil.
• Participate in incidents, investigate root cause, and remediate Dayforce environment issues.
• Create runbooks and reusable runbook components.
• Contribute to the inner source SRE repository.
• Develop trusted relationships with all parts of Dayforce’s business.
• PagerDuty On-Call rotations as required