Software Development Engineer, DevOps; US Federal

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Are you a Dev Ops 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.

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 Dev Ops/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.

• Be a key member of team of dedicated Dev Ops/SREs responsible for software engineering and operations, with an emphasis on reducing operational toil.
• Automation and improvements are planned by following scrum practices with two week sprints.
• The scrum team is autonomous - on-call function is follow-the-sun.
• Tech stack is Cloud Native (Kubernetes, Istio, OPA, GoLang, Ruby/Groovy, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana etc).
• 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.
• Develop and launch effective SLIs to ensure that SLOs are achieved through building an extendable Observability architecture, runbook automation, and establishing new processes.
• 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.

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.

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. An active TS/SCI w/CI Poly is preferred. Employees may be required to be on site at client locations in the DC, MD, and VA (DMV) area. Responsibilities include BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent degree 4+ years of Dev Ops or SRE experience in a…