# Principal Cloud Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,500 USD - $287,300 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Workday’s Public Cloud Infrastructure Team is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to guide our cloud adoption strategy and lead the technical aspects of our transition to the Public Cloud. As a Principal Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing cloud best practices, developing innovative solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful migration of our applications and infrastructure to the chosen cloud platform.

**Responsibilities:**

- Develop a comprehensive cloud strategy aligned with the company's objectives, leveraging Public Cloud.

- Design cloud-based solutions and architectures that meet security, scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.

- Lead the migration of existing on-premises infrastructure and applications to the public cloud.

- Collaborate with application teams to assess and plan the cloud readiness of their services.

- Automate deployment processes, ensuring consistency and efficiency in cloud resource provisioning.

- Establish cloud governance policies, guidelines, and best practices to maintain compliance and optimize resource usage.

- Implement robust security measures to safeguard sensitive data and ensure alignment with industry standards and regulations.

- Continuously monitor and optimize cloud resources to improve performance and cost-effectiveness.

- Identify cost-saving opportunities and recommend solutions to optimize cloud spending.

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a growing team of cloud engineers.

- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of hands-on experience with one or more of the following public cloud providers: AWS or GCP

- 5+ years of experience in one of the following functional languages: Ruby, Go, or Python

- 5+ years experience delivering Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Ansible

- US citizenship is required

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- 10+ years of Software Engineering experience

- 7+ years experience with Linux operating systems

- Expertise with building solutions in the Public Cloud (AWS or GCP) to meet scalability and reliability needs of web-scale applications

- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines (GIT, ArgoCD, etc.) pipelines for adhering to Infrastructure-as-code standard processes

- Experience with communication protocols, restful services, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, and microservices

- Proven track record of successfully leading cloud transformation initiatives for large-scale enterprises

- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, standard methodologies, and security principles

- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation

- Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture

**Salary:** $191,500 USD - $287,300 USD

**Work Environment:** 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.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- GCP
- Ruby
- Go
- Python
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Linux

### Nice to have
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- microservices
- CI/CD pipelines
- communication protocols
- restful services
- service-oriented architecture
- distributed systems

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