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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Workday · Ireland

Imported listingfull-time7 days ago

About The Role

Join our team as a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, where you will be a key technical leader responsible for defining and driving the strategic direction and implementation of security controls across our organization's infrastructure. You will lead complex projects, mentor junior staff, and significantly influence security governance decisions. This role requires deep technical expertise in infrastructure security, strong coding/automation skills, and the ability to communicate highly technical security risks and compliance requirements in clear, quantitative business terms.

  • Defining and driving the strategic direction and implementation of security controls across the organization's infrastructure.
  • Leading complex projects, mentoring junior staff, and significantly influencing security governance decisions.
  • Designing and executing the roadmap for industrializing and automating security governance, compliance verification, and control enforcement across the organization.
  • Ability to lead technical security initiatives end-to-end, from conceptual design through successful implementation
  • 7+ years of progressive, hands-on experience in engineering, with a strong emphasis on security architecture, leading complex security initiatives, and developing advanced security solutions with 2+ years focused on security governance/compliance
  • Extensive and deep hands-on experience architecting, implementing, and securing infrastructure and services within major cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) at scale
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and align senior leadership, diverse engineering teams, and non-technical stakeholders
  • A deep, expert-level understanding of network, application, and platform security, including advanced threat landscapes, attack vectors, and mitigation techniques
  • Relevant industry certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)) or equivalent focused training
  • Proven experience in architecting, implementing, and evangelizing secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and automation at scale using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, etc
  • Strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, Ruby) with the ability to develop automation for security operations, configuration management, and compliance
  • Proven ability to analyze complex technical security problems and propose pragmatic, business-enabling solutions
  • Expert-level understanding and practical application of cloud security concepts, principles, architectures, and technologies, with a proven track record of designing and implementing robust, enterprise-grade security controls in complex, multi-cloud environments
  • Exceptional ability to communicate highly technical security risks and compliance requirements into clear, quantitative business terms for executive leadership
  • Proven experience implementing, auditing, and maintaining controls for major compliance frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001)

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