Senior SRE & Platform Engineer – AWS GovCloud

Workday; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday Government seeks a Sr Software Development Engineer to guide our Kubernetes platform on AWS GovCloud, building automation and secure deployment pipelines for federal contracts. You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD improvements, and observability tools while collaborating across security, engineering, and customer teams.

The role requires US citizenship, the ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance, and on-site work in the DC/MD/VA area, focusing on reliable, scalable systems and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, or platform engineering systems.
• U.S. Citizenship required due to federal government contract requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with CI Polygraph; an active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Platform & Workload Management: Run, manage, and scale complex containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters deployed in AWS GovCloud environments.
• Infrastructure Automation: Provision and automate infrastructure, configurations, and deployment pipelines using Terraform, Terragrunt, Docker, AWS, and Argo CD.
• Air-Gapped & Secure Deployments: Design, implement, and maintain air-gapped deployment methodologies to support strict security, compliance, and isolation requirements.
• Observability & Reliability: Build, maintain, and optimize comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability and visibility into our managed services.
• Distributed Systems Troubleshooting: Apply deep expertise in troubleshooting distributed systems to quickly diagnose and resolve complex platform, infrastructure, and network issues.
• Collaboration & Results: Work closely with peer development teams, security leaders, and cross-functional partners across multiple locations to deliver reliable, high-impact outcomes.
• Security & Compliance: Implement and maintain enterprise security standards for the platform, ensuring full compliance with federal industry standards.
• Knowledge Sharing & Documentation: Author clear technical documentation, participate in architectural reviews, and actively mentor team members to foster a culture of continuous learning.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

AWS GovCloud

CI/CD

Observability

Security & Compliance

Tools

Terragrunt

Job description

Workday Government seeks a Sr Software Development Engineer to guide our Kubernetes platform on AWS GovCloud, building automation and secure deployment pipelines for federal contracts. You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD improvements, and observability tools while collaborating across security, engineering, and customer teams.

The role requires US citizenship, the ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance, and on-site work in the DC/MD/VA area, focusing on reliable, scalable systems and