Software Development Engineer, DevOps (US Federal)

workday; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate DevOps/SRE Engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves automating, operating, and enhancing a cutting-edge cloud native service platform. You will be pivotal in ensuring the platform's reliability and availability, working with a modern tech stack including Kubernetes and various cloud services. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in distributed systems and a passion for automation. Join this dynamic environment where your contributions will directly impact the success of the organization and its mission to transform enterprise software.

Benefits

Flexible Work Schedule

Health Benefits

Stock Options

Annual Bonus Plan

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE in distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and availability of the cloud native platform.
• Automate processes to improve operational efficiency and reduce toil.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Automation

Problem Solving

Distributed Systems

Cloud Native Technologies

Linux Operating System

Networking

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

GoLang

Ruby

Groovy

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

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About the Team

Are you a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer who loves the challenge of automating, operating and improving pioneering cloud native service platforms? Do you love digging into a production problem and seeing it through to resolution and follow through?

We’re the team that deploys, operates and supports our cloud native technology platform that was designed from scratch for the cloud. We lead the reliability for the complete stack and tools that delivers and supports Workday products across public clouds (e.g. AWS and GCP).

The platform is built using Cloud Native technologies (CNCF), on a foundation of Kubernetes in Public Cloud environments. This provides a secure platform on which Workday service teams, and Platform development teams can build and test their pre-release code, through deployment to production on a continuous basis.

About the Role

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).

The primary function of the DevOps/SRE team is to ensure the reliability and availability of the platform to meet the desired SLAs, reduce operational load and to scale sustainably in alignment with business growth.

1. Be a key member of team of dedicated DevOps/SREs responsible for software engineering and operations, with an emphasis on reducing operational toil.
2. Automation and improvements are planned by following scrum practices with two week sprints.
3. The scrum team is autonomous - on-call function is follow-the-sun.
4. Tech stack is Cloud Native (Kubernetes, Istio, OPA, GoLang, Ruby/Groovy, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana etc).
5. Responsible for the safe change and reliability of customer environments, with SLO gated multi-stage deployment automation. Mission is to improve platform reliability, observability and overall customer satisfaction.
6. Develop and launch effective SLIs to ensure that SLOs are achieved through building an extendable Observability architecture, runbook automation, and establishing new processes.
7. Partner with platform service teams to craft and implement a range of SRE standards for their respective services to meet. Define benchmarks and automation to qualify services to move to production environments.

About You

Your passion for identifying and solving problems on distributed environments scaling across configuration, Linux Operating System and network. You have hands-on experience handling distributed environments (Kubernetes experience or Certified Kubernetes administrator certification is a big plus). You have a keen interest in improving operational efficiency, and believe that automation is the key to operating large-scale systems. You are driven to ensure customer success.

Basic Qualifications:

• This position requires a TS/SCI with CI POLY security clearance. Applicants must already possess a valid and active TS/SCI with CI POLY security clearance.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent degree.
• 4+ years of DevOps or SRE experience in a distributed systems environment.
• 4+ years experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• 4+ years experience with Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with a programming language such as GoLang, Python, or Ruby (preferably GoLang (Go)).

Other Qualifications:

• 4+ years in handling and solving distributed systems in a public cloud, Passionate automator, with a track record of referenceable examples.
• Experienced with software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD (GIT/Jenkins/ArgoCD), testing.
• Can work independently and with the demeanor that everything can be automated.
• Skills and enthusiasm to operate, maintain, support and sustain the platform.
• Excited by working in a fast-paced environment. Experience collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams with a diverse set of backgrounds.
• Excellent documentation skills, experience with developing detailed runbooks, processes.
• Preferred: CKA/CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Application Developer) certification and Associate Cloud Engineer certification.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.VA.McLean (Tyson's Corner)

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $135,200 USD - $202,900 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $122,400 USD - $217,200 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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