Senior SRE - US Federal Cloud & Kubernetes

HR Tech Job; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday Government in Reston, VA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team. You will operate, monitor, automate, and maintain a Kubernetes-based platform to deliver reliable services for our government contracts.

This role requires a strong background in cloud infrastructure, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaboration across multiple locations and time zones is essential, with on-site work possible in the DMV area.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with large-scale cloud infrastructure and DevOps
• Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the Workday Kubernetes based platform is maintained, healthy, and ensures high availability for our customers through, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, reporting, incident handling and response, and observability tools.
• Maintain the overall platform: maintain core platform components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• Automate and optimize: Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD.
• Troubleshooting and support: Provide support and solve for platform-related issues, working closely with development teams to resolve problems.
• Security and compliance: Implement and maintain security standard methodologies for the platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Documentation and knowledge sharing: Build and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and processes. Actively participate in knowledge sharing within the team.
• Collaborate effectively with other engineers and development teams across multiple locations and time zones.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in the platform engineering space.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Terraform

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

AWS

Job description

Workday Government in Reston, VA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team. You will operate, monitor, automate, and maintain a Kubernetes-based platform to deliver reliable services for our government contracts.

This role requires a strong background in cloud infrastructure, IaC with Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaboration across multiple locations and time zones is essential, with on-site work possible in the DMV area.