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We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
Workday’s Cybersecurity GRC team is the guardian of customer trust. We are responsible for building and managing programs designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of our customers' most sensitive data. We ensure that company practices, policies, and processes are performed in accordance with contractual and regulatory requirements and Workday’s core values, and help represent these practices to our customers.We act as strategic partners that fuel Workday's growth while maintaining unwavering protection of our data and infrastructure. Joining our team means directly contributing to the security posture of a global SaaS leader. If you're driven by a passion for safeguarding millions of customers' data and eager to innovate compliance programs at scale, this is your opportunity to be part of a top-priority initiative.
About the Role
The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (P4) is a key technical leader responsible for defining and driving the strategic direction and implementation of security controls across the organization's infrastructure. This role requires deep technical expertise in infrastructure security and strong coding/automation skills to industrialize compliance and security processes. The Senior Engineer is expected to lead complex projects, mentor junior staff, and significantly influence security governance decisions.
About You
Responsibilities include:
Champion the principle of translating security policies directly into testable, automated code to ensure non-bypassable compliance.
Design and execute the roadmap for industrializing and automating security governance, compliance verification, and control enforcement across the organization.
Drive the adoption of DevSecOps principles by embedding security controls directly into the CI/CD pipeline and contributing secure, reusable modules (e.g., secure Terraform/CloudFormation modules) for engineering teams.
Basic Qualifications:
7+ years of progressive, hands-on experience in engineering, with a strong emphasis on security architecture, leading complex security initiatives, and developing advanced security solutions with 2+ years focused on security governance/compliance.
Extensive and deep hands-on experience architecting, implementing, and securing infrastructure and services within major cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) at scale.
Strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, Ruby) with the ability to develop automation for security operations, configuration management, and compliance.
Expert-level understanding and practical application of cloud security concepts, principles, architectures, and technologies, with a proven track record of designing and implementing robust, enterprise-grade security controls in complex, multi-cloud environments.
A deep, expert-level understanding of network, application, and platform security, including advanced threat landscapes, attack vectors, and mitigation techniques.
Proven experience in architecting, implementing, and evangelizing secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and automation at scale using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
Desired Qualifications:
Relevant industry certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) or equivalent focused training.
Proven experience implementing, auditing, and maintaining controls for major compliance frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001).
Professional and Soft Skills:
Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and align senior leadership, diverse engineering teams, and non-technical stakeholders.
Proven ability to analyze complex technical security problems and propose pragmatic, business-enabling solutions.
Ability to lead technical security initiatives end-to-end, from conceptual design through successful implementation.
Exceptional ability to communicate highly technical security risks and compliance requirements into clear, quantitative business terms for executive leadership.
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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