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Senior Engineer

Workday Reston, VA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$159,600 USD - $239,400 USD per year

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Description

We are looking for a highly motivated and Senior Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team. You will play a critical role in building, scaling, observing and maintaining our Kubernetes-based platform and enabling our engineering organization to deliver capabilities and incremental products quickly and reliably.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement solutions for our Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability and security tools.
  • Build and maintain core platform components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD.
  • Provide support and solve for platform-related issues, working closely with peer development teams to resolve problems.
  • Implement and maintain security standard methodologies for the platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
  • Build and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and processes.
  • Collaborate effectively with other engineers and development teams across multiple locations and time zones.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in the platform engineering space.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience working with large scale cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Security, and software development engineering skills.
  • Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience

Other Qualifications:

  • Infrastructure as code: Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform.
  • CI/CD: Experience with building, maintaining, and consuming CI/CD pipelines and tools like Argo CD.
  • Experience securing infrastructure hosted on cloud service providers like AWS in a production environment.
  • Knowledge of network, application and platform security tools and concepts.
  • Knowledge of common encryption functions and authorization schemas.
  • Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.
  • Understanding of application, system, and security threats, attack techniques and mitigating controls.
  • Programming skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language
  • Problem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred:

  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes and containerization
  • C#, Python, Ruby, Rust, or Go programming language proficiency
  • Experience working in air gapped cloud regions
  • Preferred DoD 8570/8140 compliant with at least IAT Level II certification, including a current Computing Environment (CE) credential and one approved specialty certification (e.g., CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, CASP+)

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