Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability (US Federal)

Workday

Mclean, VA

Full Time

Senior

161k-259k

about 1 month ago

Job Description

About the Role

Workday, Federal Cloud Platform Engineering, is building a new SRE team responsible for deploying, operating and supporting an innovative cloud native service platform on a foundation of Kubernetes in both Public Cloud and Private Cloud environments. This provides a secure platform on which dozens of Workday service teams, and Platform development teams can build and test their prerelease code, through deployment to production on a continuous basis.

Key Responsibilities

Updating the platform continuously in line with the major and minor release cycles of open source projects such as Kubernetes, Istio, Calico.
Providing level support for the buildout of new Customer environments.
Collaborating with multi-functional teams to come up with automation solutions.
Leading new Service team onboarding engagements, in partnership with Platform Engineering Architects and Product Managers.
Owning overall system health and holding engineering teams accountable to meet agreed SLOs such as latency and error rates.
Preparing weekly platform releases, including evolving automation towards zero touch, and following through on improvements identified post-patch.
Managing vulnerabilities and holding teams accountable to meet customer-facing SLAs.

Requirements

8+ years of SRE/DevOps experience in a distributed systems environment.
8+ years of proven experience in managing and fixing distributed systems (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker).
5+ years of experience with Linux.
5+ years of experience with at least one of (GoLang, Python, Ruby), preferably GoLang (Go).
5+ years of experience with Bash or Shell scripting, plus understanding of software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD.
BS in Computer Science or related job experience.
Ability to work independently.
Skills and passion to operate, maintain, support and sustain the platform.
Experience collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams with diverse backgrounds.
Excellent documentation skills, experience with developing detailed runbooks and processes.

Nice to Have

Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
Passion for identifying and solving problems on distributed environments scaling across configuration, Linux Operating System, and network.

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science or related field.

Benefits & Perks

Role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.
Workday offers flexible work arrangements, combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% of time each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
Comprehensive benefits package (details available during the hiring process).

Working at Workday

Workday values a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture driven by putting people first. The company emphasizes happiness, development, contribution, and a passion for making a brighter workday for all. It fosters an environment where employees can feel encouraged to shine and be their authentic selves, with a focus on community, planet, and profitability.

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