Sr. Manager of Security Engineering - US Federal

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About the Team

We're the team that drives the product and strategy for Workday’s secret sauce - our technology platform that was designed from scratch for the cloud. We own the complete stack and tools that delivers and supports Workday products across private and public clouds (e.g. on-premise, AWS, GCP, Azure). We enable Workday's scale: ~50% of Fortune 500 companies, 8000+ customers, 55M+ Workers, ~365B Transactions!
Workday is seeking a Senior Manager, Cyber Security Engineering to be part of the Federal Cloud Platform Engineering team. This team supports direct and indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

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 top-tier and strategic Sr. Manager of Security Engineering to lead our security engineering efforts and ensure the robust protection of our critical infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining security strategies and technologies passionate about safeguarding our runtime environments, particularly those hosted in the public cloud using Kubernetes platforms.

• Lead Security Engineering Strategy: Define and implement a comprehensive security engineering roadmap, aligned with the organization's overall security objectives.

• Runtime Security: Architect and implement security controls and processes to protect applications and data across our public cloud infrastructure.

• Cloud Security: Ensure robust security for our cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) including configuration management, identity and access management, and data protection.

• Kubernetes Security: Establish and maintain security standard methodologies for containerized workloads and Kubernetes orchestration.

• Threat Detection and Response: Build and lead a robust threat detection capability to identify, analyze and support incident response capability for security incidents.

• Vulnerability Management: Develop and lead a vulnerability management program to proactively identify and mitigate security risks.

• Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a globally distributed high-performing security engineering team.

• Teamwork: Work closely with other teams, including IT operations, security architecture,  software development, and compliance, to ensure security is coordinated into all aspects of the business.

• Security Awareness: Promote security awareness and standard processes across the organization.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• This position requires a TS/SCI with CI polygraph security clearance. Applicants must a