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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Senior Engineer

Workday Reston, VA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$137,000 USD - $205,400 USD per year

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Description

We are looking for a highly motivated 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.

Basic Qualifications (Senior/P4):

  • 6+ years of hands-on experience working with large scale cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and software development engineering skills.

Other Qualifications (preferred):

  • Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform.
  • Experience with building, maintaining, and consuming CI/CD pipelines and tools like Argo CD.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • 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.

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location are: Primary Location: USA.VA.Reston Primary Location Base Pay Range: $137,000 USD - $205,400 USD

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