Sr. Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering

Job Description

Role Summary

The Senior Specialist Cybersecurity Engineering is a hands-on security engineer responsible for securing our Companys strategic enterprise platforms through implementation automation assurance and continuous risk reduction. This role partners with platform owners engineers architects and product teams to embed security controls improve resilience standardize governance and maintain trusted platform operations across critical business platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer implement and maintain security controls across strategic platforms including SAP Salesforce Databricks Microsoft 365 ServiceNow Veeva AI platforms and enterprise SaaS/PaaS services.

• Support platform assurance through security assessments control validation risk reduction and compliance readiness activities.

• Integrate security capabilities into platform delivery CI/CD workflows and operational processes.

• Develop automation controls-as-code and reusable security patterns to improve platform security and operational efficiency.

• Monitor platform security posture investigate gaps and drive remediation of findings.

• Partner with platform teams to improve resilience onboarding experience and secure adoption.

• Contribute to security standards operational procedures and engineering best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Cybersecurity Computer Science Engineering or related field.

• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering cloud security platform security or DevSecOps.

• Fluent in modern AI technologies and practical enterprise use cases.

• Able to apply AI to improve cybersecurity engineering automation investigations and operational efficiency.

• Understands emerging AI security risks and supports secure adoption of AI capabilities across strategic platforms.

• Hands-on experience implementing security controls in PaaS SaaS or enterprise platforms.

• Experience with identity security security automation logging monitoring and vulnerability remediation.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes APIs CI/CD pipelines and modern cloud-native technologies.

• Strong troubleshooting problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting SAP Salesforce Databricks Microsoft 365 ServiceNow Veeva or similar enterprise platforms.

• Experience with AI security software supply chain security and platform governance.

• CISSP CCSP CCSK GIAC AWS or Azure security certifications.

• Experience in regulated enterprise environments.

Required Skills:

Certificate Services Certificate Services Cloud Security Corporate Security Management Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Analytics Cybersecurity Operations Delivery of Security Applications Design Applications DevSecOps Identity Access Management (IAM) Incident Response Information Assurance Information Security IT Security Architecture Network Segmentation Operational Technology (OT) Security Platform as a Service (PaaS) Security Analysis Security Analytics Security Audit Security Automation Security Compliance Security Controls Security Engineering 10 more

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The salary range for this role is

$117000.00 - $184200.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employees position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills geographic location government requirements and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical dental vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family) retirement benefits including 401(k) paid holidays vacation and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at can apply for this role through (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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Job Posting End Date:

09/25/2026

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