Analytics Sr Software Engineer; US Federal

About the Role

This senior SRE role supports one or more U.S. Federal Government contracts, requiring U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance. The role focuses on building a clean, scalable, reliable, and automated services framework for Workday Analytics in federal deployments.

• Build and automate CI/CD pipelines and automation for the Prism engineering and SRE teams.
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and tracing for internal and production services.
• Set technical direction with the SRE team while ensuring requirements are met.
• Enhance, secure, and maintain environments for Prism Analytics in federal deployments.
• Act as primary contact with multiple internal teams.
• Participate in on‑call duties and production events to maintain analytics reliability.

• Design, develop, and implement solutions for the Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
• Build and maintain core platform components with high availability, scalability, and security.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using Terraform and Argo CD.
• Provide support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues, collaborating with development teams.
• Implement and maintain security best practices, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and processes.
• Participate actively in knowledge sharing within the team.
• Collaborate with engineers, development teams, and stakeholders across multiple locations and time zones.
• Stay current with the latest technologies and trends in platform engineering.

This role may require a TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance and may include on‑site work at client locations in the DC, MD, and VA (DMV) area.

• U.S. citizenship.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with on‑premises or cloud‑based infrastructure and strong systems architecture, networking, and security knowledge.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and administration.
• Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent work experience.

• Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like Argo CD.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS cloud services in production.
• Proficiency in programming (Go or Python). Experience with ORM, big data technologies (Apache Spark, Hadoop, HDFS, Storm), data pipeline development, and data lake architecture.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Nice to have: experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana), security auditing and compliance frameworks, Docker, Kubernetes.

Primary Location (USA.VA.Reston) Base Pay Range: $151,500

USD–$227,300

USD.
Additional US Locations Base Pay Range: $137,100

USD–$243,600

USD.
Eligibility for Workday Bonus Plan, role‑specific commission/bonus, and annual stock grants.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, disability, national origin, protected family care, race, religion, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law. Workday also considers applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law.