Workday

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Network Security

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1 day ago
Atlanta, GA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$144k - $258k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable network security controls, patterns, and templates across AWS, GCP, private cloud, and enterprise environments.
  • Automate continuous security monitoring, posture enforcement, and control deployment using Terraform, Go, and Python.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and drive network security initiatives.
  • Evaluate production infrastructure designs and conduct network security assessments.
  • Partner with Cybersecurity and Trust teams to develop and enforce policies, standards, and guidelines aligned with CIS, NIST, and FedRAMP.
  • Operate and support production security infrastructure including DDoS detection, WAF, firewalls, IPS/IDS tooling, and cloud-native network security controls.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation for production networks and document security architectures, decisions, and control implementations.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in network security architecture, engineering, and design.
  • Hands-on experience deploying network security controls across AWS and/or GCP.
  • Experience with AWS Network Firewall, AWS WAF, GCP Cloud Armor, or comparable cloud-native security technologies.
  • Experience with at least one scripting or programming language such as Python or Go.
  • Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Consul, or similar technologies.
  • Experience designing, implementing, or managing zero trust architectures or SASE solutions, including identity-aware access, software-defined perimeters, and secure remote access frameworks.
  • Production experience delivering network security initiatives in customer-facing environments.
  • Deep understanding of public cloud networking and security across AWS and GCP, including secure multi-cloud and hybrid architectures.
  • Experience evaluating, implementing, and operating firewalls, web application firewalls, DDoS protection, and cloud-native network security controls.
  • Understanding of application, system, and network security threats, attack techniques, and mitigating controls.
  • Experience implementing security policies and supporting data protection and security standards.
  • Ability to use AI and agentic capabilities to improve engineering workflows and deliver security solutions at scale.
  • Ability to align security programs with CIS, NIST, and FedRAMP standards.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support, including support related to AI tools used in employment decision-making.

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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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