Sr Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)

About the Role: This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native). 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 the 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; Implement and maintain security best practices for the platform; Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and processes; 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

Must be a US Citizen; 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; Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance; Infrastructure as code: Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform; CI/CD: 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; Expertise in Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), big data technologies (Apache Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Storm), data pipeline development, data lake architecture; Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

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

Benefits

Eligibility for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus; annual refresh stock grants; Flexible work approach with at least half of time spent in the office or in the field