Principal CyberSecurity Engineer (US Federal)

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This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native). Innovation and creativity are heavily emphasized upon and encouraged at Workday to combat an ever-evolving threat landscape. The tools, processes and standards developed by the team are a critical part of the threat defense capabilities of Workday. Candidates for this role should have an analytical and problem solving approach, capability to learn new skills, comfortable with accepting feedback and able to work well with a team. Responsibilities include: Develop and deploy security services, tools and automated controls across the various platforms in Workday's Cloud environments. Improve in-house security tooling and solutions. Actively drive product technology and engineering process innovation to help Workday be an authority in Security. About You Basic Qualifications: 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in security tools development or technical cloud security architecture and design. Experience securing infrastructure hosted on cloud service providers like AWS, GCP and Azure. Proficient in at least one scripting language with the ability to apply automation to ensure desired and consistent security configurations are maintained. (Bash, Python, Ruby etc.) Expert Knowledge with Linux operating systems and containerization. Expert Knowledge of cloud security concepts and professional hands-on experience documenting and implementing security controls of the same. Expert Knowledge of threat modeling, security policy, NIST 800-53 security standards and functional requirements. Expert knowledge of network, application and platform security tools and concepts Expert knowledge of and experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development (Terraform, Chef, Ansible etc). Other Qualifications: Experience with CI/CD. Knowledge of and experience with deploying Kubernetes/EKS and container security. Knowledge of REST API and HTTP protocol. Knowledge of common encryption functions and authorization schemas. Operational experience supporting production systems. Certificates or courses taken against cloud service providers like AWS, GCP and Azure. Understanding of application, system, and security threats, attack techniques and mitigating controls. Workday Pay Transparency Statement The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. 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