Senior Cloud Engineer - US Federal

Workday•Reston, VA

1d•$148,200 - $264,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Workday's Public Cloud Infrastructure Team is a diverse group of software developers, cloud engineers & site reliability engineers (SREs) who work together to ensure our cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable, and highly available. We focus on enabling Workday's growth in the public cloud by crafting, deploying and maintaining fully automated, resilient and scalable infrastructure-as-a-service. We constantly strive to streamline processes and reduce manual effort, allowing us to focus on delivering innovative solutions that drive business value. Our team is constantly exploring new technologies and methodologies to improve our processes and systems. If you're passionate about cloud infrastructure, automation, and are looking for a dynamic multi-cloud work environment, then Workday is the place for you. 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 Sr Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in guiding Workday’s cloud adoption strategy and leading the technical aspects of our transition to the Public Cloud. In this critical technical leadership position, you will have the opportunity to shape and implement cloud best practices, develop innovative solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful migration of our applications and infrastructure to the chosen cloud platform. You will use Infrastructure-as-code and automation to make continuous improvements to how the team maintains the infrastructure and services they own.

Requirements

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).
This position requires a TS/SCI with CI polygraph security clearance. Applicants must already possess a valid and active TS/SCI with CI polygraph security clearance
5+ years of hands-on experience with one or more of the following public cloud providers: AWS or, GCP
5+ years experience with Linux operating systems
3+ years of experience in one of the following functional languages: Ruby, Go, or Python
3+ years experience delivering Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Ansible.

Nice To Haves

Expertise with building solutions in the Public Cloud (AWS or GCP) to meet scalability and reliability needs of web-scale applications.
Experience designing CI/CD pipelines (GIT, ArgoCD, etc.) pipelines for adhering to Infrastructure-as-code best practices
Experience with communication protocols, restful services, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, and microservices.
Proven track record of successfully leading cloud transformation initiatives for large-scale enterprises.
Strong understanding of cloud architecture, standard processes, and security principles.
Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

Managing and operating infrastructure services in a scalable and secure manner.
Own tooling and operations involved in the buildout of new Customer environments
Collaborate with architects and leadership in evolving infrastructure services to meet the growing needs of the business.
Service health and uptime of Infrastructure services.
Patching an regular maintenance of infrastructure services.
ENV build automation, tooling and workflow execution.
Vulnerability management, holding teams accountable to meet customer facing Service Level Agreements (SLAs)