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Workday · 1 month ago

VP, Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, WD Government

USA, VA, McLean

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$284K/yr - $426K/yr

15+ years exp

Workday is a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, and is seeking a VP of Infrastructure & Platform Engineering to lead their government engineering efforts. The role involves overseeing the design, architecture, and operation of complex scalable SaaS platforms while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and fostering a high-performance engineering culture.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareHuman ResourcesSaaSSoftware

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Transform strategic initiatives into high-velocity, auditable processes to meet critical go-live dates

Build and lead teams responsible for infrastructure architecture, platform reliability, automation, cloud operations, and service delivery within highly regulated security compliance boundaries

Manage a significant operational and capital expenditure budget, prioritizing investments to maximize business value, mitigate risk, and drive transformational change

Foster an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture that champions continuous learning, accountability, and innovation

Qualification

Infrastructure engineeringPlatform engineeringCloud/SaaS operationsKubernetesZero Trust ArchitectureNIST 800-53 principlesService meshObservability stacksInfrastructure as CodeAgile methodologiesScrumCapacity planningCloud securityData residencySoft skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; an advanced degree (e.g., M.S., MBA) is preferred

15+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or cloud/SaaS operations, with 7+ years in an executive leadership role (VP or SVP level) managing global, complex organizations

Demonstrated experience in a leadership role supporting high-assurance, compliance-driven environments, particularly within the U.S. Federal Government sector or a major government contractor

Strong understanding of availability, performance, SRE, metrics, monitoring, cloud cost management, capacity planning, cloud security is important

Experience with Kubernetes, multi-cloud, service mesh, Observability stacks, IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Experience with agile, scrum, scrum of scrums and other models to create real time visibility into execution status

Ability to engage in active technical tradeoffs

Preferred

Clearance is preferred

Experience leading mission critical SaaS platforms

Strong understanding of ZTA (Zero Trust Architecture) and NIST 800-53 principles and experience with designing and implementing both in modern SaaS environments

Experience with taking products through the ATO process (e.g. Fedramp, DoD IL4/5, Top Secret) is preferred

Strong foundation in data residency and sovereign cloud concepts is a plus