Senior Insider Threat Analyst

About The Team

At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work. Workday's Cyber Defense team helps protect an ever-growing technology, global footprint. We are responsible for monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats to the company and keeping the trust of our customers. Functions like Security Response, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Secure Code Development and many others make up the fabric of who we are and what we do daily around the world.

About the Role

Workday is seeking a skilled Insider Threat Analyst to support a dynamic environment. In this role, you will play a critical part in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating insider threats by leveraging advanced security tools, behavioral analytics, and investigative techniques. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess risks, detect anomalies, and enhance the organization's overall insider threat posture.

• Detection Engineering & Alert Fidelity Optimization: Design, build, and continuously refine insider threat detection logic, use cases, and analytics to improve signal quality. Focus on reducing false positives and increasing the percentage of actionable insider threat alerts.
• Alert Triage, Investigation, & Feedback Loop: Lead triage and investigation of insider threat alerts, applying structured methodologies to assess risk. Translate investigation outcomes into detection improvements, ensuring a continuous feedback loop between operations and engineering.
• Detection Strategy & Use Case Development: Develop and implement a scalable detection strategy aligned to key insider threat risks (i.e., data exfiltration, employee exit risk, misuse). Identify gaps and prioritize new detection use cases to expand coverage and effectiveness.
• Threat Hunting & Advanced Analytics: Conduct proactive threat hunting using behavioral, endpoint, and data activity signals to identify emerging insider risks. Translate findings into new detection use cases and improvements to existing detection logic.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Data Protection, Legal, HR, and Cyber teams to ensure detections are risk-aligned, context-aware, and operationally actionable. Incorporate business context and investigation requirements into detection design to improve alert fidelity and response effectiveness.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Insider Threat, Security operations, Threat Hunting, Intelligence analysis, corporate investigations or counterintelligence.
• Threat hunting experience in a corporate or government environment.
• Hands-on experience designing, tuning, and operationalizing detection logic and policies in tools such as Proofpoint, DTEX, Exabeam, Netskope, or similar UEBA and DLP tools.
• Experience working with and analyzing data or related telemetry to identify and investigate insider risk activity in DLP, UEBA, UAM, and SIEM solutions.
• Experience developing program metrics and presenting findings to senior leadership.

Other Qualifications

• Experience mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK and other insider threat TTP knowledge bases.
• Strong experience with insider threat detection methodologies, behavioral analytics, and risk indicators.
• Proven ability to design, tune, and operationalize detection logic to improve alert quality and reduce noise.
• Analytical mindset with ability to translate investigation outcomes into detection improvements.
• Understanding of data classification, data movement patterns, and exfiltration techniques.
• Ability to measure and improve detection effectiveness (i.e., alert fidelity, actionable alert rate).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience implementing automation or orchestration in security operations (SOAR, APIs, pipelines, scripted workflows) to accelerate response and improve consistency.
• Experience applying AI-assisted analytics for alert enrichment, correlation/deduplication, prioritization, and operational reporting.
• Experience contributing to training, playbooks, and tabletop exercise development.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, ITPM, SEC+).

Pay

Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $152,000 USD – $228,000 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $144,400 USD – $258,000 USD

Additional Considerations: If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $152,000 – $228,000 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.