Senior Devops Engineer (US Federal)

Workday, Inc.•Mclean, VA

37d•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). This role's charter is to develop, build, deploy, and support the security specific solutions and infrastructure to help protect Workday customers data. We have a hybrid schedule where you will have the opportunity to collaborate with Workmates at the office but still have the flexibility to work up to 50% remote. The successful candidate will have a proven potential to work in a production focused diverse organization. You will be working in a rapidly moving microservices environment where resilience and scalability are key non-functional requirements. This will require you to work efficiently within your own team but also to coordinate with others in teams both locally and in other timezones. Also this role will require the operation and maintenance of our critical production system as well as building massively scalable digital security systems as part of that is core to all Workday services. This position will require regular after-hours production support, in the event of critical service outages.

Requirements

This position requires a TS/SCI with CI POLY security clearance. Applicants must already possess a valid and active TS/SCI with CI POLY security clearance.
5+ years software development or DevOps experience
5+ years experience with internet protocols TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL/TLS etc
3+ years experience with Linux and container technologies (K8s, Docker)
3+ years using, deploying, and applying: AWS, Google Cloud Platform

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
Experience automating infrastructure in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, Ruby, JavaExperience running databases (SQL and NoSQL)
Knowledge and experience working with cryptographic, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) or key management systems such as Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
Experience of full life-cycle software engineering practices including coding standards, testing, code reviews, source control management, and operations
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical information to a wide variety of audiences
Excellent problem solving skills
Experience with orchestration, deployment tools e.g CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Chef
Experience with CI tools e.g Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, Artifactory
Experience with bare metal server operations (is a plus)
Strong background in Linux and Shell Scripting