Analytics Sr Software Engineer (US Federal)

Workday • Reston, VA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Workday Government focuses on outcomes that serve a larger mission, supporting U.S. federal agencies in modernizing and transforming the full employee lifecycle experience and finance operations. As a Fortune 500 company and a proven enterprise cloud platform, Workday brings modern technology, responsible AI, and secure infrastructure to complex environments. This role is for a key contributor on the Analytics Delivery Engineering team, acting as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build a clean, scalable, reliable, and automated services framework. The work is operational, high-impact, and demands rigor, integrity, and long-term thinking. The team values collaboration, follow-through, and doing the right thing, with a culture grounded in integrity, respect, and shared responsibility. Curiosity is matched with accountability, and ambition with trust, providing space to do your best work and grow with a company committed to long-term investment in its people and the federal mission.

Requirements

• 5+ 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.
• Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform.
• Experience with building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and tools like Argo CD.
• 3+ years experience working with AWS cloud services in a production setting.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably GoLang or Python.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Must be a United States citizen (naturalized or native) due to federal government security requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes.
• An active TS/SCI w/CI Poly is preferred.
• Preferred DoD 8570/8140 compliant with at least IAT Level II certification, including a current Computing Environment (CE) credential and one approved specialty certification (e.g., CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, CASP+).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement solutions for our Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
• Build and maintain core platform components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD.
• Provide support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues, working closely with development teams to resolve problems.
• Implement and maintain security best practices for the platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and processes.
• Actively participate in knowledge sharing within the team.
• Collaborate effectively with other engineers, development teams, and stakeholders across multiple locations and time zones.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in the platform engineering space.
• 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, secure and 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree