Workday

Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)

Workday$131K — $196K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, cloud-based or on-premises.
  • Strong grasp of Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and administration.
  • Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure automation.
  • Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Argo CD.
  • 2+ years of experience with AWS cloud services in a production environment.
  • Proficiency in programming, ideally GoLang or Python.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and implement solutions for the Kubernetes platform.
  • Build and maintain core platform components, ensuring high availability and security.
  • Automate provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments.
  • Provide support and troubleshoot platform-related issues in collaboration with development teams.
  • Implement security best practices for platform compliance.
  • Create and maintain documentation for platform components and processes.
  • Collaborate with engineers across various teams and time zones.
  • Stay updated on the latest technologies in platform engineering.

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule with a mix of in-office and remote work.
  • Opportunities for professional development and knowledge sharing.
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams and projects.
  • Participation in building robust and scalable services frameworks.
Full Job Description

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.

What You Will Do:

  • 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, secureand 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.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement: Design, develop, and implement solutions for our Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.

  • Build and maintain: Build and maintain core platform components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.

  • Automate and optimize: Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD.

  • Troubleshooting and support: Provide support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues, working closely with development teams to resolve problems.

  • Security and compliance: Implement and maintain security best practices for the platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

  • Documentation and knowledge sharing: Create and maintain comprehensive

  • documentation for platform components and processes. Actively participate in knowledge sharing within the team.

  • Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with other engineers, development teams, and stakeholders across multiple locations and time zones.

  • Stay current: Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in the platform engineering space.

About You

This role may require a security clearance at the TS/SCI w/CI Poly level. Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance. An active TS/SCI w/CI Poly is preferred.

May be required to be on site at client locations in the DC, MD, and VA (DMV) area.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 3+ 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


Other Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Cloud experience: 2 + years experience working with AWS cloud services in aproduction setting.
  • Programming skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably GoLang or Python.
  • Experience in Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), big data technologies (Apache Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Storm).
  • Problem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to haves:

  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.
  • Experience with Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes


Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits, please .

Primary Location: USA.VA.RestonPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $131,000 USD - $196,600 USD


Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $118,600 USD - $210,600 USD



Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, were 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 youll 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 4home office4 roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

About Workday

Workday, Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The Company delivers financial management, human capital management and analytics applications designed for various companies, educational institutions and government agencies. As part of its applications, the Company provides embedded analytics that capture the content and context of everyday business events, facilitating informed decision-making from wherever users are working. Its applications include Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Other Applications. It also provides open, standards-based Web-services application programming interfaces, and pre-built packaged integrations and connectors. Workday, Inc. is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Learn more about Workday
Size
15,932 employees
Market Cap
$42.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$282.4 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+26.7%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
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