P3 SRE and Platform Engineer - Sana Search - US Federal

About the Team

Workday, founded in 2005, stands as a groundbreaking force in the human capital and financial management industry, with a global presence and a diverse array of customers. Across our offices worldwide, our teams are united by a shared dedication to innovation, collaboration, and excellence!

The Workday Sana Search Team is responsible for creating the world's most powerful, platform-agnostic enterprise search product, transforming the way people and agents interact with knowledge, inside and outside the Workday ecosystem.

We are in the process of building the definitive discovery platform: a standalone-ready, hybrid-by-design service that orchestrates enterprise data at scale. From federated gateways to agentic text retrieval pipelines and open personalization frameworks, we provide the blueprints for modern search, engineered for universal portability and precision.

Joining our team means embarking on a journey of opportunity to advance your career and contribute to impactful solutions that shape industries. Whether you thrive with solving sophisticated business problems, collaborating with agile teams, or championing innovation and software design, Workday offers an environment where your talents can thrive.

About the Role

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).

Federal Security Requirement: This role supports one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government. Due to federal government security requirements, all personnel working on these contracts must be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

What You Will Do

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Provision and manage AWS resources (EC2, Lambda, ElastiCache, S3, RDS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Build platforms and tools that empower application developers to interact with production in a self-service manner.
• Manage Docker images and Kubernetes manifests (using Kustomize/Helm) to support and scale microservices.
• Define, design, implement, test, and deploy automation infrastructure for configuration management and service deployment to improve operational efficiency.

CI/CD & Deployment

• Support and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity, Argo CD), ensuring builds are fast and deployments are reliable.
• Drive the "commit to production" workflow, automating manual touchpoints where reasonable to help scale the team.

Reliability & Observability

• Configure CloudWatch, Prometheus, and ELK dashboards to ensure team visibility into system health.
• Triage, fix, and resolve issues identified by production monitoring.
• Conduct retrospectives and act on incidents to continually improve systems.
• In time, you will participate in an infrequent on-call rotation to ensure high availability for critical systems.

Collaboration & Growth

• Build and maintain strong relationships with peers and partners; work closely with developers to debug environment-specific issues and optimize application performance.
• Maintain clear, concise documentation for deployment processes, infrastructure diagrams, and reliability practices.
• Engage in a culture of learning and innovation through hackathons, online course offerings, and employee-led special interest guilds.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS (Compute, Storage, Networking, and Control Plane).
• Must be a U.S. Citizen (required for Federal Government contract compliance).

Other Qualifications:

• Experience managing production workloads in Kubernetes.
• Deep familiarity with CI/CD tools and IaC frameworks.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate's compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday's comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta Primary Location Base Pay Range: $117,400 USD - $176,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $111,500 USD - $199,800 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work

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. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter