Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Air-Gapped Cloud Defense

Workday; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday's Cyber Defense team protects a global technology footprint, monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats to our customers. The role supports US Federal Government contracts, requiring US citizenship.

We are expanding into an air-gapped classified cloud and seek a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to build the team, technology, and processes for this environment. You will lead cybersecurity efforts including vulnerability management, incident response, threat hunting, and threat

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical security roles including consultancy, operations, or threat detection.
• 2+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience.
• Experience deploying, monitoring, and managing systems in AWS or MS Top Secret clouds.

Responsibilities

• Build out the cybersecurity team, technology, and processes for the new environment.
• Serve as the Cyber Defense presence in the air-gapped network and coordinate across teams.
• Lead vulnerability management, incident response, threat hunting, and threat detection activities.

Skills

Security leadership

Cloud security fundamentals

Threat detection

Vulnerability management

Incident response

SIEM & SOAR

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS Cloud

Azure Cloud

SIEM

SOAR

Job description

Workday's Cyber Defense team protects a global technology footprint, monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats to our customers. The role supports US Federal Government contracts, requiring US citizenship.

We are expanding into an air-gapped classified cloud and seek a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to build the team, technology, and processes for this environment. You will lead cybersecurity efforts including vulnerability management, incident response, threat hunting, and threat