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 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.
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:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience working with large scale cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and software development engineering skills.
Other Qualifications (preferred):
- 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.
- Programming skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language.
- Problem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes.
- Amazon Web Services proficiency working in a production environment.
- C#, Python, Ruby, Rust, or Go programming language proficiency.
- Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.
- 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.