Sr Software Engineer, DevOps

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About the Team

What will you be doing?
Design, build, enhance, and maintain large-scale customer facing systems using AWS and GCP, specifically to enable end users to engage with media content shape the future direction of our large, Infrastructure as Code, terraform respond to production monitoring, triage, fix, and resolution. Retro and act on incidents to continually improve our systems and processes. Deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and in-depth code reviews. Drive process and tooling improvements. Work on an Agile Scrum team that delivers on shared commitments FedRAMP deployment and support.

About the Role

As a DevOps Engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments.  You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes.

About You

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).

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years DevOps experience

• 5+ Experience with public Cloud platforms, specifically AWS

• 5+ Proficiency with deployment automation / configuration management tools

• 3+ years of Terraform experience

Other Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Java)

• Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code

• Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems

• Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes

• Passion to optimize and automate, with the maturity to know when and where it’s appropriate

• Mentoring and coaching engineers to inspire professional growth

• Experience influencing and affecting technological change at the team level

• Experience with FedRAMP environments is desired.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.VA.McLean (Tyson's Corner)

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $163,800 USD - $245,800 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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