Senior Insider Threat Analyst

About this role

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

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 organiza tion'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. • Hand 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 finding 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+)

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