Workday
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)
$137K–$244K
USA.VA.Reston · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years hands-on infrastructure experience; 3+ years AWS production experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Personnel working on the federal government contracts must be United States citizens (naturalized or native).
About the job
Build and operate secure, reliable platform infrastructure and analytics services for Workday Federal, including Kubernetes, automation, CI/CD, and production observability.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain Kubernetes platform components, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
- Support and troubleshoot platform issues, and improve security, availability, scalability, and compliance.
- Participate in production on-call and collaborate across teams to deliver and support analytics applications.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience, on-premises or cloud-based, including systems architecture, networking, and security.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and administration.
- Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years experience working with AWS cloud services in a production setting.
Nice to have
- Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly clearance; experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
- Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks; experience with Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes.
Pay
$151,500 USD - $227,300 USD (base salary); $137,100 USD - $243,600 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, AWS, GoLang, Python, Prometheus, Grafana
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