Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Network Security

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The Network Security team delivers innovative solutions to sophisticated challenges, serving as a critical component of the Workday Security organization’s mission to ensure the security and safety of Workday customers, users, and their data. We design, build, and operate critical security controls for customer data environments, overcoming constantly shifting - and exciting - technical challenges to ensure trust in the Workday service.

Our team is responsible for operating the systems and controls that we build, advising other Workday business units on ways to securely implement services and infrastructure, and partnering with our information security team to ensure policy compliance and address gaps. We operate data centers and cloud environments across the globe and are constantly improving our network security posture and capabilities.

Over the next year, we are focused on delivering scalable network security controls across the Workday enterprise, improving platform resilience and the consistency of security controls in all areas of the business, and leveraging AI and agents to accelerate how we deliver effective solutions for all of Workday’s customers. Our team is spread across the US and EU, and though we connect mostly virtually, we love sharing in each other’s successes, celebrating wins, and embracing fun with informal team meetings and activities.

We genuinely enjoy getting to know each other beyond our technical skills — because great work is even better when you’re part of a great team.

As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer on the Network Security team, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and operating the security controls that protect Workday’s customer data environments and our own Workmates across AWS, GCP, private cloud, and enterprise infrastructure. You’ll be both a hands‑on builder and a technical leader: architecting scalable network security solutions, automating security control deployment and enforcement, mentoring team members, and partnering across the organization to ensure security is embedded into the way we design and operate systems.

In this role, you will be responsible to:

• Architect and Build:
  Design and implement next‑generation network security controls, patterns, and templates across AWS, GCP, private cloud, and enterprise environments.
• Automate:
  Enhance the security of the enterprise by building scalable systems for effective continuous monitoring and enforcement of expected security posture using tools such as Terraform, GoLang, and Python.
• Mentor:
  Serve as a technical…