(Sr.) Software Development Engineer- SRE ( US Federal)

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).

This role may require a security clearance at the TS/SCI w/CI Poly level. Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance.

We are looking for a highly motivated Site Reliability Engineers to join our growing Core Platform Engineering team.

You will play a critical role in operating, monitoring, automating, maintaining, and providing metrics and observability for our Core Services and enabling our engineering organization to deliver capabilities and incremental products quickly and reliably.

You and the team will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, solve complicated problems, and contribute to the foundation of our infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the Workday 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: Assist development teams in automating service delivery, configuration management, and observability.
• Troubleshooting and support: Provide support and solve for platform-related issues, working closely with development teams to resolve problems.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience working with large scale enterprise software solutions.
• 3 - 7+ years experience in Object Oriented Design and Programming, preferably in Java, Go and/or Kotlin, Scala.
• Build and Pipeline scripting, automated unit and system testing, load testing exposure and readiness to roll up sleeves to put in the safety net that enables us deliver faster and better.
• Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience
• Problem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Deep appreciation of application development issues at enterprise level, specifically, large number of developers working together on the same application that requires deep functional knowledge
• Knowledge in concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, and distributed systems
• Preferred DoD 8570/8140 compliant with at least IAT Level II certification, including a current Computing Environment (CE) credential and one approved specialty certification (e.g., CompTIA CySA+, GICSP , CASP+)