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).
As a SDE on the Federal Cloud Platform Engineering team, you will focus on design, development, analysis, acquisition, installation, modification and support of operating systems, deployments,, utilities and network-related tools! You will conduct programming and support activities, such as new or revised program language codes, processing routines and report generations. You will also conduct programming tasks including program design, program coding, debugging and documentation to increase flexibility in deployments.
As part of our team, you will oversee and manage deployment of Workday technology stack in Gov cloud environments, and deliver analytics to enable optimized deployments company-wide. This role is ideal for engineers with a holistic approach to cloud deployment, performance, and scalability who thrive on driving innovation and system-wide improvements.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and optimize Workday in the U.S. Federal regions and in doing so, form the nexus of the core team responsible for this mission as well as closely working with our commercial software engineering teams responsible for the overall Workday platform.
Partner with the Workday Federal Cyber Defense team responsible for security operations, overall cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, and compliance, and platform security health.
Develop and maintain deployment tools and analytics to support company-wide deployment flexibility and cost savings
Collaborate across teams to ensure robust, scalable, and efficient solutions.
Support Kubernetes Infrastructure - Patching, Maintenance,& troubleshooting
Conduct Resiliency Failover/Failback exercises
Perform incident management, proactive alerting/monitoring, and conduct Root Cause analysis
Skills
Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform
Configuration Management & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation
Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
CI/CD & DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git,
Programming & Scripting Languages: Go (Golang), Python, Ruby, Java, Bash
About You
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience.
Must have strong understanding of Kubernetes & AWS Cloud Stack
Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go programming language proficiency.
Proficiency in Infrastructure Automation tools like Terraform
Experience with building, maintaining, and consuming CI/CD pipelines and tools like Argo CD.
Experience working in any of the Observability tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or so.
Strong analytical and Incident troubleshooting skills.
Experience on 24X7 On-call rotation basis support
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Experiance with Security Auditing and Compliance frameworks
Preferred
CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) Certification
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Certification
Other Qualifications
Proven ability to introduce, integrate, and implement new technologies rapidly.
Skilled in network analysis and troubleshooting, using tools like tcpdump to resolve network, firewall, and connectivity issues in collaboration with engineering teams.
Proficient in Unix/Linux environments, with strong Python scripting expertise for automation and system management.
Familiar with Agile/Scrum practices, including sprint planning and daily stand-ups using Jira; excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach in team environments.
Extensive experience creating and operating automation frameworks for deployment orchestration in production environments.
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 candidate’s 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 Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.
Primary Location: USA.VA.Reston
Primary Location Base Pay Range: $137,000 USD - $205,400 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re 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 you'll 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 "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com, as far in advance as possible.
Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.
Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.
In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.
