Workday
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)
McLean, VA
Feb 5, 2025
Full-time
Full Job Description

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That's why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don't need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

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About the Team

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.

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).

Be Responsible For:

  • 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

Have Ownership of:

  • Overall system health, and holding engineering teams accountable to meet agreed SLO's such as latency and error rates.

  • Weekly platform release preparation, including evolving the automation towards zero touch. Follow through on improvements identified post-patch.

  • Vulnerability management, holding teams accountable to meet customer facing Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

About You

Basic Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of SRE/DevOps experience in a distributed systems environment.

  • 8+ years' proven experience in managing and fixing distributed systems. (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker)

  • 5+ years of experience with Linux.

  • 5+ years' demonstrated ability 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.

Other Qualifications:

  • BS in Computer Science or related job experience

  • Ability to work independently

  • Skills and passion to operate, maintain, support and sustain the platform.

  • Excited by working in a fast-paced environment. Experience collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams with a diverse set of backgrounds.

  • Excellent documentation skills, experience with developing detailed runbooks, processes

Do you have a passion for identifying and solving problems on distributed environments scaling across configuration, Linux Operating System and network? If so, then give us a shout!


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.McLean (Tyson's Corner)


Primary Location Base Pay Range: $161,300 USD - $241,900 USD


Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $145,900 USD - $259,200 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.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

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