SIRT Engineer: Incident Response & Cloud Security (Hybrid)

Workday, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Ireland is seeking a security professional to join our highly visible SIRT.

You will handle incident response, digital forensics, and security operations across SaaS and on‑prem environments, with hybrid/flexible work arrangements and opportunities to influence security tooling and processes. The role emphasizes cloud security, threat hunting, and automation, requiring 3+ years in security engineering and a solid background in network and application security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in security engineering/analysis.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Respond to operational queue work in a follow-the-sun model.
• Lead cyber security incident response and investigations including digital forensics and cloud security events.
• Improve threat detection through gap analyses and remediation.
• Identify areas for additional controls, tooling and automation to expand monitoring and response.
• Build and maintain investigation and/or response tools and processes.
• Evaluate new tools and techniques to deliver practical security solutions.

Skills

Python scripting

Security engineering

Threat hunting

Incident response

Linux/OSX/Windows

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

Digital forensics

Cloud security tools

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Ireland is seeking a security professional to join our highly visible SIRT.

You will handle incident response, digital forensics, and security operations across SaaS and on‑prem environments, with hybrid/flexible work arrangements and opportunities to influence security tooling and processes. The role emphasizes cloud security, threat hunting, and automation, requiring 3+ years in security engineering and a solid background in network and application security.