Sr Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)

Workday•Reston, VA

4d•$133,400 - $237,600•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for a Sr Site Reliability Engineer on the Analytics Delivery Engineering team at Workday Government. The position focuses on building a clean, scalable, reliable, and automated services framework to support U.S. federal agencies in modernizing their employee lifecycle experience and finance operations. The work is high-impact, operational, 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. The role offers the opportunity to apply experience to meaningful, mission-driven work alongside colleagues who take pride in building lasting solutions.

Requirements

Must be a US Citizen
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.

Nice To Haves

An active TS/SCI w/CI Poly is preferred.
May be required to be on site at client locations in the DC, MD, and VA (DMV) area

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.