Sr Software Engineer, DevOps

Workday•McLean, VA

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team What will you be doing? Design, build, enhance, and maintain large-scale customer facing systems using AWS and GCP, specifically to enable end users to engage with media content shape the future direction of our large, Infrastructure as Code, terraform respond to production monitoring, triage, fix, and resolution. Retro and act on incidents to continually improve our systems and processes. Deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and in-depth code reviews. Drive process and tooling improvements. Work on an Agile Scrum team that delivers on shared commitments FedRAMP deployment and support. About the Role As a DevOps Engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments. You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes. About 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).

Requirements

8+ years DevOps experience
5+ Experience with public Cloud platforms, specifically AWS
5+ Proficiency with deployment automation / configuration management tools
3+ years of Terraform experience
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).

Nice To Haves

A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Java)
Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems
Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
Passion to optimize and automate, with the maturity to know when and where it’s appropriate
Mentoring and coaching engineers to inspire professional growth
Experience influencing and affecting technological change at the team level
Experience with FedRAMP environments is desired.

Responsibilities

Design, build, enhance, and maintain large-scale customer facing systems using AWS and GCP, specifically to enable end users to engage with media content
Shape the future direction of our large, Infrastructure as Code, terraform
Respond to production monitoring, triage, fix, and resolution.
Retro and act on incidents to continually improve our systems and processes.
Deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and in-depth code reviews.
Drive process and tooling improvements.
Work on an Agile Scrum team that delivers on shared commitments
FedRAMP deployment and support.
Implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments.
Work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes.