Senior Cloud Architect: Multi-Cloud & IaC Leader

Workday, Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a senior cloud architect to drive cloud strategy, architecture, and migration across DoD-related contracts in the U.S. federal space. The role requires U.S. citizenship and extensive experience with AWS or GCP, IaC (Terraform/Ansible), and containerized microservices.

You will mentor a growing team of cloud engineers, collaborate with vendors, and ensure security and compliance while optimizing performance and costs in multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• 5+ years in AWS or GCP.
• 5+ years writing code in Ruby, Go, or Python.
• 5+ years delivering IaC with Terraform or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive cloud strategy aligned with company objectives.
• Lead migration of on-premise systems to the public cloud.
• Establish governance and security for cloud resources.
• Monitor performance and optimize cloud spend.
• Provide technical leadership to cloud engineers.
• Collaborate with vendors and accelerate cloud transformation.

Skills

Public cloud (AWS/GCP)

Programming in Ruby/Go/Python

Infrastructure as code (Terraform/Ansd

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

CI/CD tooling (Git/ArgoCD)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a senior cloud architect to drive cloud strategy, architecture, and migration across DoD-related contracts in the U.S. federal space. The role requires U.S. citizenship and extensive experience with AWS or GCP, IaC (Terraform/Ansible), and containerized microservices.

You will mentor a growing team of cloud engineers, collaborate with vendors, and ensure security and compliance while optimizing performance and costs in multi-cloud environments.