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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Workday Reston, VA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$151,500 USD - $227,300 USD per year

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Description

We’re Workday, a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We're seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Analytics Delivery Engineering team.

As an SRE, you will help build a clean, scalable, reliable, and automated services framework. You will work on projects ranging from building out robust CI/CD to automation for both the Prism engineering team and SRE team. You will also collaborate with others on the SRE team to help set technical direction while ensuring requirements are met.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing, developing, and implementing solutions for our Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools
  • Building and maintaining core platform components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security
  • Automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD
  • Providing support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues, working closely with development teams to resolve problems
  • Implementing and maintaining security best practices for the platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience working with infrastructure, either on-premises or cloud-based, with a deep understanding of systems architecture, networking, and security
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and administration
  • Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent work experience

Nice to haves:

  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks
  • Experience with Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government, which mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location are: Primary Location: USA.VA.Reston Primary Location Base Pay Range: $151,500 USD - $227,300 USD

We offer flexible work arrangements, including remote and hybrid options.

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