Software Development Engineer, DevOps (US Federal)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Be a key member of a team of dedicated DevOps/SREs responsible for software engineering and operations, with an emphasis on reducing operational toil.
• Plan and execute automation and improvements following scrum practices with two-week sprints.
• Manage an autonomous scrum team with follow-the-sun on-call functions.
• Ensure the safe change and reliability of customer environments with SLO gated multi-stage deployment automation.
• Develop and launch effective SLIs to ensure SLOs are achieved through building an extendable Observability architecture, runbook automation, and establishing new processes.
• Partner with platform service teams to craft and implement a range of SRE standards for their respective services to meet, define benchmarks, and automate to qualify services for production environments.

Requirements

• Requires a TS/SCI with CI POLY security clearance, with an active and valid clearance.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent degree.
• 4+ years of DevOps or SRE experience in a distributed systems environment.
• 4+ years experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• 4+ years experience with Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with a programming language such as GoLang, Python, or Ruby, preferably GoLang.
• Hands-on experience handling distributed environments, with Kubernetes experience or Certified Kubernetes administrator certification being a big plus.
• Experience with software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD (GIT/Jenkins/ArgoCD), testing.
• Ability to work independently with a mindset that everything can be automated.
• Strong documentation skills and experience developing detailed runbooks and processes.
• Excited by working in a fast-paced environment and collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams.

Nice to Have

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification.
• Associate Cloud Engineer certification.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent degree.
• 4+ years of DevOps or SRE experience.
• 4+ years experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 4+ years experience with Kubernetes.

Benefits & Perks

• Role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus.
• Annual refresh stock grants.
• Flexible work approach combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% of time each quarter in the office or in the field.
• Comprehensive benefits package.