Senior Cybersecurity Incident Response Leader

Workday, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 324,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Sr Manager of Cybersecurity to lead a high-visibility incident response program across a multi-cloud environment and to drive technical excellence and team development.

You will partner with risk, legal, and compliance to strengthen trust in our platform, while shaping a modern, scalable security program that enables business goals and rapid, secure innovation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity or information security roles.
• 3+ years of experience leading and developing security teams.
• Strong technical leadership with credibility and ability to motivate teams.
• Deep expertise in security incident response with experience leading major security events.
• Engineering mindset with automation, orchestration, and scalable security solutions.
• Pragmatic security balancing risk reduction with enablement.
• Excellent communication with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Experience collaborating across global or distributed teams.
• Experience designing and maturing security programs at scale in cloud-native/SaaS environments.
• Hands-on or leadership experience in SOC, incident response/forensics, cloud security, automation, secure development, AI security, and secure product security.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day security operations within the Security Incident Response team.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of cybersecurity engineers, including performance management and mentoring.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and KPIs for the team aligned to security and business strategy.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Track and report security metrics and program maturity to senior leadership.
• Champion the security mindset across the company and advise executives on cybersecurity matters.
• Contribute to the program vision and implementation of a world-class Response program at Workday.
• Architect and evolve a Response platform enabling Cyber Defense with automation and innovation.
• Build automation around open-source and proprietary tools; evaluate new tools and techniques.
• Partner with risk, legal, and compliance teams to identify and manage security risks.
• Prioritize and drive remediation of security findings across infrastructure, applications, and processes.
• Lead or coordinate response to security incidents, including triage, containment, investigation, and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident response

Security automation

Cloud security

Digital forensics

Threat hunting

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Sr Manager of Cybersecurity to lead a high-visibility incident response program across a multi-cloud environment and to drive technical excellence and team development.

You will partner with risk, legal, and compliance to strengthen trust in our platform, while shaping a modern, scalable security program that enables business goals and rapid, secure innovation.