Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government. You will be a key contributor on the Analytics Delivery Engineering team. As an SRE, you will help in building a clean, scalable, reliable, and automated services framework.

Responsibilities

Work on projects ranging from building out robust CI/CD to automation for both the Prism engineering team and SRE team; Work on enhancements and improvements for monitoring, alerting, and tracing of not only internal services but most importantly, production services; Collaborate with others on the SRE team to help set technical direction while ensuring requirements are met; Help enhance, build, secure and maintain environments for Prism Analytics in Workday Federal deployments; Interact and be the primary contact with multiple teams both internally in Workday Prism Analytics; Participate in and facilitate production on-call duties and events to ensure reliability of the analytics applications and play a pivotal role in building the foundation that delivers Workday Analytics to GovCloud; Design, develop, and implement solutions for Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools; Build and maintain core platform components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security; Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD; Provide support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues, working closely with development teams to resolve problems; Implement and maintain security best practices for the platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards; Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and processes; Actively participate in knowledge sharing within the team; Collaborate effectively with other engineers, development teams, and stakeholders across multiple locations and time zones; Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in the platform engineering space

Requirements

United States citizenship (naturalized or native) required due to U.S. Federal Government contracts; Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance (TS/SCI w/CI Poly may be required); 5+ years of hands-on experience working with infrastructure, either on-premises or cloud-based, with a deep understanding of systems architecture, networking, and security; Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and administration; Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience; Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform; Experience with building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and tools like Argo CD; 3+ years experience working with AWS cloud services in a production setting; Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably GoLang or Python; Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana); Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks; Experience with Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes; Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly preferred

Benefits

May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus; Annual refresh stock grants; Comprehensive benefits; Flexible work arrangement (at least 50% of time in office or field per quarter)