Cloud & Infra Security Architect — Flexible/Remote

Workday; Norway; Hybrid; NOK 1,585,000 - 2,377,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking an experienced Infrastructure and Cloud Security Architect based in Pleasanton to define and drive security standards for our platforms. You will partner with Enterprise Security, Infrastructure, and Application teams to ensure security by design across cloud, datacenter, and network domains.

The role requires hands-on security leadership, threat modeling, and cloud-native architecture experience, with a focus on scalable, compliant systems and threat mitigation across the

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of technology proven experience in infrastructure and security solutions.
• Hands-on experience designing and building scalable and resilient cloud applications (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with security architecture, database architecture, virtualization, software design and development.
• Build reports and dashboards for driving security outcomes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline for automated security testing.
• Hands-on experience in AWS Networking Firewall and Security modules.
• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform CDK CloudFormation).
• Consulting and leadership experience interacting with senior and executive leaders.
• Familiarity with the principles of threat trends and defense in depth.
• Ability to use the principles and practices of project management.
• Passion for new technologies and cloud trends.
• Degree in Computer Science or comparable technical degree; CISSP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain standards aligned to ensure NIST and CIS compliance.
• Engage in system design engineering and maintenance to provide technical security guidance across infra programs and initiatives.
• Develop and maintain security context in reference architecture and its prototypes.
• Identify and mitigate security issues misconfigurations and vulnerabilities related to cloud and corporate infrastructure and applications.
• Partner with security engineering observability and vulnerability management to define logging alerting patching backup and recovery capabilities and detect prioritize remediate issues and threats across infrastructure assets.
• Participate in threat modeling security incident response lead incidents and perform post-incident reviews with engineering teams.
• Develop evangelize and monitor the adoption of best cloud security practices.
• Participate in tabletop and security preparedness exercises.
• Build positive relationships with peers across the company to evangelize a strong security culture.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Security to recommend and guide investments to realize best in class security posture.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS

GCP

Azure

Security architecture

Threat modeling

CI/CD security testing

Linux

Networking

Python

Terraform

CDK

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

Workday is seeking an experienced Infrastructure and Cloud Security Architect based in Pleasanton to define and drive security standards for our platforms. You will partner with Enterprise Security, Infrastructure, and Application teams to ensure security by design across cloud, datacenter, and network domains.

The role requires hands-on security leadership, threat modeling, and cloud-native architecture experience, with a focus on scalable, compliant systems and threat mitigation across the