Workday Security Operations Engineer

Location: Oklahoma City, OK. Direct‑hire position; must be authorized to work in the United States now and in the future without assistance.

About the role

Our client is an established insurance and financial services organization known for its strong workplace culture, long employee tenure, competitive bonus opportunities, and modern corporate campus. The Workday Security Operations Engineer will lead Workday security administration while contributing to broader enterprise security operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and maintain the organization’s Workday security architecture.
• Administer security groups, domain permissions, business‑process policies, role‑based access, and segregation‑of‑duties controls.
• Connect Workday with identity governance, access management, privileged access, SSO, and automated provisioning platforms.
• Improve identity‑lifecycle processes, including account creation, access changes, termination workflows, certifications, and compliance reporting.
• Configure and support authentication and authorization standards such as SAML and OAuth.
• Develop automated solutions supporting identity management, vulnerability management, application security, incident response, threat intelligence, and technology governance.
• Integrate security technologies with business applications across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises environments.
• Create and maintain internal security tools, utilities, workflows, and incident‑response playbooks.
• Assess potential uses for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics within security monitoring and decision‑making.
• Help protect enterprise applications, identities, third‑party integrations, vendors, service providers, and sensitive information.
• Monitor and address security vulnerabilities, access risks, control failures, and policy violations.
• Investigate security events, participate in threat hunting, and escalate unresolved risks through established channels.
• Promote secure software‑development practices and support application scanning and testing before release.
• Assist with governance and compliance obligations using established cybersecurity frameworks.
• Advise project teams and mentor colleagues on security principles, controls, and risk reduction.

Qualifications

• Advanced, hands‑on experience administering and architecting Workday Security.
• Strong knowledge of Workday security groups, domain policies, business‑process security, role‑based permissions, and segregation‑of‑duties controls.
• Experience integrating Workday with IAM, IGA, PAM, SSO, or provisioning technologies.
• Practical knowledge of SAML, OAuth, authentication, and authorization concepts.
• Experience supporting Workday audits, access certifications, compliance reporting, governance, and identity‑lifecycle management.
• Background implementing security controls across cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid environments.
• Experience building automated security processes, integrations, tools, or utilities.
• Understanding of identity security, vulnerability management, application security, incident response, and threat intelligence.
• Ability to evaluate risk and communicate technical security concerns to business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating across infrastructure, application development, project, compliance, and business teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and mentoring abilities.
• Familiarity with NIST, HITRUST, or comparable security and compliance frameworks.
• Willingness to work onsite in Oklahoma City three days per week.

Pay

$115,000–$140,000 annually, plus a 16% target bonus.

Schedule

Hybrid schedule requiring three days per week onsite in Oklahoma City.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)