Security Engineer - Insider Threat / Senior Security Engineer - Insider Threat

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At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

Workday's Cyber Defense team helps protect an ever-growing technology, global footprint. We are responsible for monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats to the company and keeping the trust of our customers. Functions like Security Response, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Secure Code Development and many others make up the fabric of who we are and what we do daily around the world.

About the Role

We are seeking a Security Engineer to join our Insider Threat organization to assist with monitoring, detecting, and mitigating insider risk. You will help Workday identify patterns for detections and build out processes and controls to mitigate identified areas of opportunity. You will work closely with our Security Incident Response Team and Cyber Incident Management team to identify and mitigate enterprise threats to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Workday information systems and information.

About You

Security Engineer - Insider Threat

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in incident response, insider threat, threat detection, or threat hunting.

• 3+ years of experience monitoring, investigating, and remediating insider threats.

• Hands-on experience performing log analysis against various log sources including user activity logs, network logs, cloud logs, and endpoint logs.

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent job experience.

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 Other Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals.

• Experience planning and executing threat hunts and driving organizational change based on findings.

• Demonstrated knowledge of adversary TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures).

• Ability to apply behavioral analysis techniques to identify patterns of behavior that may indicate malicious or unauthorized activity.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

• Ability to drive multiple projects and priorities while managing operational responsibilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, building positive relationships with partner organizations.

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Sr. Security Engineer - Insider Threat

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in incident response, insider threat analysis, threat detection, counterintelligence or a related domain

• 5+ years of experience monitoring, investigating, and remediating insider threats.

• 5+ years in conducting interviews and writing detailed reports.

• Hands-on experience performing log analysis against various log sources including user activity logs, network logs, cloud logs, and endpoint logs.

• Knowledge of DLP, UEBA, SIEM, SOAR and other insider risk security tooling

• Broad understanding of internal and external investigations, cybersecu