Cybersecurity Engineer
Core
Engineering the infrastructure, automation, and platform reliability substrate for Workday's Active Defense cybersecurity charter, enabling security teams to execute at machine speed.
Role type
Senior IC Cybersecurity Engineer (Security Automation & Integration)
Builds
Intelligent automation systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure for security operations
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, AI-Augmented Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Python, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), CI/CD, AWS, Containerization, Cybersecurity fundamentals, On-call ownership
Preferred skills
Security tool integration (SIEM, SOAR, EDR), Data engineering (Spark, SQL), AI-augmented development workflows
Technologies
Python, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, IAM, KMS, VPC, EMR, Batch, Glue, EKS), Docker, Spark, Trino, Hive, Copilot, LLM-based systems
Responsibilities
Own infrastructure-as-code and platform substrate for security data and automation services; Design, build, and operate automations and data pipelines for security data ingestion; Extend and harden continuous delivery and cloud-security posture; Drive partner requests from vague problem statements to shipped solutions; Build and maintain integrations across security tools (SOAR, SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners); Raise team's AI-augmented engineering floor with shared skills and reusable scaffolds; Iterate quickly on prototypes, tests, and operational improvements
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
