P2 SRE and Platform Engineer - Sana Search (US Federal)

Workday • Pleasanton, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Workday is seeking a DevOps & Platform Engineer (P2) to support the Sana Search Team and the day-to-day health, automation, and deployment of its cloud-native enterprise search products. Working alongside senior engineers, the role helps automate processes, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and support application teams in moving code from commit to production. The position supports one or more U.S. Federal Government contracts, so all personnel working on those contracts must be U.S. citizens, naturalized or native.

The engineer assists with provisioning and updating AWS resources using infrastructure-as-code tools, supports developer tooling and deployment workflows, maintains Docker images and Kubernetes manifests, and writes scripts to automate operational work. The role also supports and troubleshoots CI/CD pipelines, executes and monitors routine deployments, maintains monitoring and alerting dashboards, and helps triage production issues and implement lasting fixes. Participation in an on-call rotation is required.

The position involves working closely with application developers on environment-specific and performance issues, maintaining deployment and configuration documentation and runbooks, and participating in team learning and engineering reviews. Workday describes its flexible-work approach as spending at least half of each quarter in an office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners, depending on the role.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen, naturalized or native, to meet federal contract requirements.
• At least 2 years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Solid proficiency with Linux administration.
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, or Argo CD.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language: Python, Go, or Bash.
• Ability to design, develop, and maintain scalable software build systems.
• Experience designing and implementing automated solutions for build, infrastructure, and software configuration management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to adapt to new technologies.
• Experience collaborating effectively with development and system architecture teams.
• Familiarity with implementing and adhering to public-cloud best practices.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant cloud certifications, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional, Google Cloud Associate Engineer, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Assist in provisioning and updating AWS resources, including EC2, Lambda, ElastiCache, S3, and RDS, using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Support self-service developer tooling and assist team members with local and production deployment workflows.
• Maintain Docker images and update Kubernetes manifests using Kustomize or Helm for microservice deployments.
• Write and maintain Python, Go, or Bash scripts to automate operational processes and configuration management tasks.
• Support, troubleshoot, and optimize CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, TeamCity, and Argo CD.
• Help execute and monitor routine deployments and identify opportunities to automate manual steps.
• Help build and maintain CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK dashboards for system performance and health metrics.
• Triage and debug production issues identified by monitoring tools, assist with root-cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to help maintain Sana Search availability.
• Collaborate with application developers to debug environment-specific issues and assist with performance troubleshooting.
• Create and maintain documentation for deployment procedures, environment configurations, and runbooks.
• Participate in team learning opportunities, guilds, and engineering reviews.

Benefits

• The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission or bonus.
• The role may be eligible for annual refresh stock grants.
• Workday describes a flexible-work approach that allows employees to create a flexible schedule and spend at least half of each quarter in an office or in the field, depending on the role.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed