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As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.\nAbout the Team\nYour work matters here. At Workday Government, we focus on outcomes that serve a larger mission. Our work supports U.S. federal agencies as they modernize and transform the full employee lifecycle experience and finance operations-so they can operate with greater clarity, accountability, and trust. As a Fortune 500 company and a proven enterprise cloud platform, Workday brings modern technology, responsible AI, and secure infrastructure to some of the most complex environments in the world. The work isn’t theoretical. It’s operational. It’s high-impact. And it demands rigor, integrity, and long-term thinking.From day one, you’ll be part of a team that values collaboration, follow-through, and doing the right thing-especially when the stakes are high. Our culture is grounded in integrity, respect, and shared responsibility. We challenge each other to think clearly, act thoughtfully, and build solutions that stand up to real-world demands. Here, curiosity is matched with accountability. Ambition is paired with trust. You’ll have the space to do your best work, the support to keep growing, and the backing of a company committed to long-term investment in both its people and the federal mission.\nIf you’re looking to apply your experience to meaningful, mission-driven work-alongside colleagues who take pride in building things that last-you’ll find that opportunity at Workday\nAbout the Role\nThis 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).\nYou will be a key contributor on the Analytics Delivery Engineering team. As an SRE, you will help in building a clean, scalable, reliable, and automated services framework.\nWhat You Will Do:\nWork on projects ranging from building out robust CI/CD to automation for both the Prism engineering team and SRE team\n\nWork on enhancements and improvements for monitoring, alerting, and tracing of not only internal services but most importantly, production services.\n\nCollaborate with others on the SRE team to help set technical direction while ensuring requirements are met.\n\nHelp enhance, build, secure and maintain environments for Prism Analytics in Workday Federal deployments\n\nInteract and be the primary contact with multiple teams both internally in Workday Prism Analytics\n\nParticipate in and facilitate production on-call duties and events to ensure reliability of the analytics applications and play a pivotal role in building the foundation that delivers Workday Analytics to GovCloud.\n\nResponsibilities:\nDesign and implement: Design, develop, and implement solutions for our Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.\n\nBuild and maintain: Build and maintain core platform components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.\n\nAutomate and optimize:Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD.\n\nTroubleshooting and support: Provide support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues, working closely with development teams to resolve problems.\n\nSecurity and compliance: Implement and maintain security best practices for the platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.\n\nDocumentation and knowledge sharing: Create and maintain comprehensive\n\ndocumentation for platform components and processes. Actively participate in knowledge sharing within the team.\n\nCollaboration: Collaborate effectively with other engineers, development teams, and stakeholders across multiple locations and time zones.\n\nStay current: Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in the platform engineering space.\n\nThis role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Governmentwhich, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).\nAbout You\nThis role may require a security clearance at the TS/SCI w/CI Poly level. Applicants must have theability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance. An active TS/SCI w/CIPoly is preferred.\nBasic Qualifications:\n5+ years of hands-on experience working with infrastructure, either on-premises or cloud-based, with a deep understanding of systems architecture, networking, and security.\nStrong understanding of Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and administration.\nBachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience\nOther Qualifications\nInfrastructure as code: Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform.\nCI/CD: Experience with building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and tools like Argo CD.\nCloud experience: 3+ years experience working with AWS cloud services in aproduction setting.\nProgramming skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably GoLang or Python.\nProblem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.\nCommunication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.\nNice to haves:\nExperience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).\nExperience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.\nExperience with Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes\nWorkday Pay Transparency Statement\nThe 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.\nPrimary Location: USA.VA.RestonPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $151,500 USD - $227,300 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $137,100 USD - $243,600 USDOur Approach to Flexible Work\nWith 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.\nPursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nWorkday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.\nWorkday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. 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