Analytics Sr Software Engineer (US Federal)

Workday•McLean, VA

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

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). You will be a key contributor on the Analytics Delivery Engineering team. As an SRE, you will help in building a clean, scalable, reliable, and automated services framework. 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. 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 support for continued growth.

Requirements

Must be a United States citizen (naturalized or native) due to federal government security 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.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance.
Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance.

Nice To Haves

An active TS/SCI w/CI Poly is preferred.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.
Experience with Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes.

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.