Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)
Workday
- Reston, Virginia, United States
- Remote, Onsite, Hybrid
- $151,500 - $227,300 a year
- Posted Jul 26, 2026
Job description
About the role
The role is a Site Reliability Engineer on the Analytics Delivery Engineering team supporting U.S. Federal Government contracts. You will build and automate a scalable, reliable services framework for Prism Analytics, improve CI/CD, monitoring and security, and participate in on‑call duties to ensure production reliability.
About the company
Workday is a Fortune 500 company and leading AI platform that helps organizations manage people, finance and agents. It emphasizes integrity, empathy and shared enthusiasm, and supports both commercial and U.S. federal government customers through its secure, modern cloud solutions.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship (naturalized or native) required for federal contracts
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; active TS/SCI with CI Poly preferred
- 5+ years hands‑on infrastructure experience (on‑prem or cloud) with 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 experience
- Proficiency with infrastructure‑as‑code tools, especially Terraform
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines; familiarity with Argo CD
- 3+ years production experience with AWS cloud services
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Go or Python
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Nice‑to‑have: experience with monitoring/observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Nice‑to‑have: experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks
- Nice‑to‑have: experience with Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes