Site Reliability Engineer - Remote job DevOps / Sysadmin 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 Canada and the United States.

U.S Based Applicants- This position requires passing a Dayforce background screening, USFedPASS (US Federal Personnel Authorization Screening Standards). This includes a credit check, criminal/misdemeanor check and taking a drug test. Any employment is contingent upon passing the screening. Due to Federal requirements, only US citizens, US naturalized citizens or US Permanent Residents, holding a green card, will be considered.  

Canada Based Applicants Citizenship Requirement: Ability to obtain or currently possess Canadian Protected B security clearance is mandatory. Must possess 5+ years of residency in Canada. 

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 ensuring all new applications pass their Production Readiness Review
• 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 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 experience we value

• Ability to obtain or currently possess Canadian Protected B security clearance is mandatory
• Self-starter and passionate individual willing to learn new concepts and technologies as well as contributing to the SRE powered ecosystem.
• 2-4 years’ 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 database engine and querying language (MSSQL / TSQL and Postgres / PLSQL preferred).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills are mandatory.
• Knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes is considered an asset but not required.
• Knowledge of Terraform is considered an asset but not required.