Senior Security Engineer

Posted May 9

Are you an experienced Senior Security Engineer looking for a new challenge? Join our Information Security team and become a member of our Workiva Red Team! As part of this team, you will play a vital role in protecting our customers' data, ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. If you're someone who takes initiative and has excellent communication skills, with knowledge of best security practices and experience in various languages and environments, then we encourage you to apply! Come work with us and help maintain a fun and ethical center for Workiva.

What You’ll Do

  • Perform security assessments and vulnerability testing to identify potential threats and risks
  • Develop and implement continuous security improvement methods to maintain a strong and ethical center for Workiva
  • Work with the team to remediate and resolve any findings from vulnerability scans using tools
  • Write custom scripts to automate workflow and reduce manual processes
  • Collaborate with other teams to ensure security standards are met across the organization
  • Stay current with emerging security trends and technologies to continuously improve security posture
  • Act as a representative of InfoSec and make building relationships a priority

What You’ll Need

  • 4+ years of related information security experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 2 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience
  • Strong proficiency in scripting languages
  • Experience with vulnerability scan tools
  • Cloud computing experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
  • Understanding of cloud terminology such as RDS, ELB, VPC, HSM
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment

Nice-To-Haves

  • Experience with pen testing tools and techniques
  • Familiarity with industry solutions such as firewalls, endpoint detection and response (EDR). SEIM, ticket management and tracking, secure DNS, content categorization and blocking, software development and version control, cybersecurity posture improvement and scored analysis of cyber threat intelligence signals for third party and IT risk management
  • Knowledge of phish testing and security awareness best practices

How You’ll Be Rewarded:

  • Salary range in the US: $118,000.00 - $155,000.00
  • A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
  • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
  • 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Where You’ll Work

Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.

  • Customer Success:  Always delight our customers.
  • Trust: Rely on each other. 
  • Integrity: Do the right thing, every time. 
  • Collaboration: Share resources and work together. 
  • Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways. 
  • Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong. 
  • Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.

We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.

At Workiva, you’ll enjoy: 

  • Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
  • Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
  • Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
  • Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.

Learn more about life at Workiva: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workiva/

Learn more about benefits: https://www.workiva.com/careers/benefits

Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We believe that great minds think differently.  We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation.  Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.  We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.

Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com.

Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.

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