P2 SRE and Platform Engineer - Sana Search (US Federal)

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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).

We are seeking a DevOps & Platform Engineer (P2) with 2+ years of professional experience to join the Sana Search Team. In this role, you will support the day-to-day health, automation, and deployment of our cloud-native search products. Working alongside senior engineers, you will help automate processes, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and support our application teams in moving code smoothly from “commit” to “production”.

• 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

• Infrastructure Provisioning: Assist in provisioning and updating AWS resources (EC2, Lambda, ElastiCache, S3, RDS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Developer Enablement: Support self-service developer tooling and assist team members with local and production deployment workflows.

• Containerization: Maintain Docker images and update Kubernetes manifests (using Kustomize or Helm) to support microservice deployments.

• Operational Automation: Write and maintain scripts (Python/Go/Bash) to automate routine operational processes and configuration management tasks.

CI/CD & Deployment

• Pipeline Support: Support, troubleshoot, and optimize existing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity, Argo CD) to keep build and deployment times fast and reliable.

• Deployment Execution: Help execute and monitor routine deployments, identifying opportunities to automate manual steps.

Reliability & Observability

• Monitoring & Alerting: Help build and maintain CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK dashboards to track system performance and health metrics.

• Incident Support & Triage: Triage and debug production issues identified by monitoring tools. Assist in root-cause analysis and implementation of permanent fixes.

• On-Call Rotation: Participate in an on-call rotation to help maintain high availability for Sana Search.

Collaboration & Growth

• Team Partnership: Collaborate directly with application developers to debug environment-specific issues and assist with performance troubleshooting.

• Documentation: Create and maintain up-to-date documentation for deployment procedures, environment configurations, and runbooks.

• Continuous Learning: Actively participate in team learning opportunities, guilds, and engineering reviews to grow technical capabilities.

About You

Basic Qualifications (Required)

• Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen (required for Federal Government contract compliance).

• Experience: 2+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Software Engineering roles.

• Cloud & Linux: Hands-on experience working with core AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch) and solid proficiency with Linux administration.

• Containers & Orchestration: Practical experience working with Docker and Kubernetes environments.

• IaC & CI/CD: Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code frameworks (Terraform or CloudFormation) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, or Argo CD).

• Programming/Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Go, or Bash).

Other Qualifications:

• Compute: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda

• Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, RDS

• Caching: ElastiCache, File Cache

• Networking: VPC, App Mesh, Network Firewall

• Control Plane: CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS Organizations, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail

• Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, Terraform

• Observability: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK(Solas) stack

• CI/CD and Deployment: Jenkins and Teamcity, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD and Argo Workflow.

• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes.

• Possession of relevant cloud certifications is a plus, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional, Google Cloud Associate Engineer or similar.

• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain scalable software build systems.

• Experience in designing and implementing automated solutions for build, infrastructure, and software configuration management.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt to new technologies.

• Experience collaborating effectively with development and system architecture teams

• Familiarity with implementing and adhering to Public Cloud best practices.

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.CA.Pleasanton

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $110,200 USD - $165,200 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $92,400 USD - $165,200 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.

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