Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Network Security (US Federal)

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About the Team

The Network Security team delivers innovative solutions to sophisticated problems, serving as a critical component of the Workday Security organization's mission to guarantee the security and safety of Workday customers, users, and their data. We design, build, and operate critical security controls for customer data environments, overcoming constantly shifting - and exciting - technical challenges to ensure trust in the Workday service.

Our team is responsible for operating the systems and controls that we build, advising other Workday business units on ways to securely implement services and infrastructure. We partner with our information security team to ensure policy compliance and address gaps. We operate data centers and cloud environments across the globe and are constantly tackling new challenges as we seek to improve our network security posture and capabilities.

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).

As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing systems and security controls in production environments, developing automation for deployment and validation tasks, partnering with internal customers to drive projects forward, and researching new technologies and opportunities for improving how we operate. 

This is a technical role that will require collaboration with team members across the world, bringing to bear a strong ability to communicate, detail, and document ideas and work. It's expected to have a taste for challenging yourself - and hopefully the team! It is expected that you are a self-starter, able to lead sophisticated initiatives and have organizational impact.

You'll be encouraged to improve your skills with training, conferences, and domain-specific workshops. Other members of the team will be available to mentor and support, and there are opportunities for stretch projects outside of normal work responsibilities. You will have the flexibility of a hybrid schedule.
 

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of direct, technical experience related to network, platform, or infrastructure security

• 2+ years crafting, deploying, and operating web application firewall controls (WAF)

• Operational experience supporting DDoS detection, WAF, and IPS in a production environment

• Expertise with Terraform, GoLang or Python, Kubernetes operators and familiarity with using these and/or other tools to deliver consistent, scalable security solutions

Other Qualifications

• Experience deploying infrastructure components, and application and network security systems in AWS and GCP

• Proven understanding of public cloud network security concepts and hands-on experience documenting and implementing security controls of the same

• Understanding of application, system, and security threats, attack tech