Workday Security Operations Engineer

Titan Professional Resources is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to join one of our clients. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions across enterprise systems, applications, and infrastructure, with a focus on security operations, identity management, automation, and compliance.

Security Operations Engineer Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated security solutions for identity management, vulnerability management, application security, incident response, threat intelligence, and technology governance.

• Integrate security technologies with business applications across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

• Develop and maintain security tools, utilities, and playbooks to improve enterprise security monitoring and coverage.

• Evaluate and recommend AI, machine learning, and data analytics solutions to support security monitoring and automated response capabilities.

• Respond to, investigate, resolve, and escalate security incidents and actively conduct threat hunting using manual and automated tools.

• Identify security vulnerabilities, resource misuse, and compliance issues, following established escalation procedures.

• Implement security controls for applications, identities, third-party connections, vendors, and outsourced solutions.

• Support secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, including application scanning, vulnerability testing, and secure coding standards.

• Develop and maintain security governance policies and procedures aligned with applicable regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

• Mentor IT and business team members on security concepts, controls, and awareness.

• Design, implement, and maintain Workday security architecture, including security groups, domain security policies, business process security, role-based access controls, and segregation of duties.

• Develop and support Workday integrations with identity and access management (IAM), identity governance and administration (IGA), privileged access management (PAM), single sign-on (SSO), and provisioning platforms.

• Implement and support authentication and authorization technologies, including SAML and OAuth, within Workday environments.

• Support Workday security audits, compliance requirements, access certifications, identity lifecycle management, and audit readiness.

Security Operations Engineer Qualifications

• Extensive experience in security operations engineering, security architecture, or a related cybersecurity role.

• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining automated security solutions and integrating security technologies across enterprise environments.

• Knowledge of identity and access management, vulnerability management, application security, incident response, and threat intelligence.

• Experience with security monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, and security automation tools.

• Understanding of secure software development practices, application vulnerability scanning, and secure coding principles.

• Familiarity with regulatory compliance, security governance, and frameworks such as NIST and HITRUST.

• Expert-level experience with Workday Security administration and architecture, including security groups, domain security policies, business process security, role-based access controls, and segregation of duties.

• Experience integrating Workday with IAM, IGA, PAM, SSO, and identity provisioning platforms.

• Experience implementing SAML, OAuth, and related authentication and authorization technologies.

• Experience supporting security audits, compliance reporting, identity governance, access certification, and identity lifecycle management within Workday.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.