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# Senior Insider Threat Analyst

- **Company:** Workday, Inc.
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $152,000.0 - $228,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Cyber Security, Data Deduplication, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Intelligence Analysis, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Performance Tuning, Security Information and Event Management, Data Classification, Mitre Att&ck, Information Technology, Cybercrime, Workday
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Workday/job/USA-GA-Atlanta/Senior-Insider-Threat-Analyst_JR-0109378

## About the Role

* 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+)

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

## Description

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., With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.

Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.


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