Workday
Mid/Senior Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)
$112K–$200K
USA.VA.Reston · Flex · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years for Site Reliability Engineer or 5+ years for Senior Site Reliability Engineer, in software development supporting Production Engineering, DevOps, or equivalent roles; same respective years using configuration management frameworks in public/private cloud.
- Education
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate reliable automation, build, and deployment infrastructure and support production systems for Workday development teams and U.S. Federal Government contracts.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain automation for configuration management and service deployment; automate operations and enable developer self-service.
- Monitor production, triage and resolve incidents, and improve systems and processes based on incident reviews.
- Collaborate with peers and partners; participate in an infrequent on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- U.S. citizenship (naturalized or native); ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance, potentially at TS/SCI w/CI Poly level.
- For SRE: 3+ years in software development supporting Production Engineering, DevOps, or equivalent roles; for Senior SRE: 5+ years.
- For SRE: 3+ years using configuration management frameworks in public/private cloud; for Senior SRE: 5+ years.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field; experience with Linux, scripting, SCM tools, Agile, SDLC, CI/CD, and public cloud networking.
Nice to have
- Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly clearance.
- DoD 8570/8140 compliance with IAT Level II certification, current CE credential, and an approved specialty certification; JFrog Artifactory administration experience is an advantage.
Pay
$111,500 USD - $199,800 USD (base salary)
Tools
Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure
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