Cybersecurity Incident Response Engineer

Workday; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is expanding its cybersecurity response program to deliver world-class capabilities across incident response, DFIR, threat hunting, and security automation. This highly technical role requires strong experience with incident response, security automation, and cloud security events within a SaaS environment.

You will work in a global security function that collaborates with multiple Workday teams, contributing to investigations, tooling, and proactive defense while supporting a

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in security engineering/analyst roles.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Certifications (e.g., Offensive Security, SANS, CISSP) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead cyber security incident response and investigation efforts including digital forensics and cloud security events.
• Improve threat detection capabilities by gap analyses and remediation.
• Identify needs for additional controls, tooling, and automation to extend monitoring and response coverage.
• Build and maintain investigation and response tools and processes.
• Evaluate new tools and techniques to create practical security solutions.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics (DFIR)

Threat hunting

Security automation

Python scripting

Linux/OSX and Windows

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

Cloud security tooling

Job description

Workday is expanding its cybersecurity response program to deliver world-class capabilities across incident response, DFIR, threat hunting, and security automation. This highly technical role requires strong experience with incident response, security automation, and cloud security events within a SaaS environment.

You will work in a global security function that collaborates with multiple Workday teams, contributing to investigations, tooling, and proactive defense while supporting a