Security Engineer Jobs in Pennsylvania
Security Engineer jobs in Pennsylvania are in strong demand, with active hiring across defense contracting, financial services, healthcare systems, and state and federal government agencies at every level from entry-level analyst to senior architect. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Greater Philadelphia suburbs anchoring the I-95 corridor are the busiest hiring markets, where established employers like Lockheed Martin, Comcast, and UPMC maintain significant security engineering headcount. The most sought-after specialties in Pennsylvania include cloud security, identity and access management, and security operations center engineering. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
CVS Health is seeking an experienced Senior Workday Security Engineer to join the HR Technology Workday Security team. This role designs, supports, governs, and optimizes security across the Workday platform, with a primary focus on HCM, Compensation, Reporting, and Access Management.
The role partners with HR, Compensation, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, Reporting, and HR Technology teams to protect sensitive workforce data, apply least-privilege access, improve operational controls, and support security modernization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, configure, and maintain Workday security groups, roles, domains, and business process security policies.
- Support security requirements across HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Talent, Recruiting, and Reporting.
- Troubleshoot complex access issues, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver clear remediation recommendations.
- Manage Workday security access requests and approvals through ServiceNow, with complete documentation and traceability.
- Apply least-privilege and segregation-of-duties principles; support periodic access reviews and remediation.
- Analyze custom-report sharing, data sources, and field-level domains to prevent inappropriate data exposure.
- Support audit, risk, privacy, and compliance activities by producing accurate evidence and maintaining control documentation.
- Own and maintain SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, role matrices, security inventories, and change records.
- Track operational metrics, ticket volumes, SLA performance, backlog trends, and recurring access issues.
- Support Workday release impact assessments, sandbox-first testing, migrations, and controlled production deployment.
- Contribute to security re-architecture, role redesign, security standardization, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Cross train team members and build reusable documentation to reduce key-person dependency.
- Design and define the technical architecture and infrastructure required for digital solutions.
- Write code, develop software components, and implement complex functionalities according to project requirements.
- Integrate various software components or systems, ensuring seamless communication and interoperability between different parts of the digital solution.
- Write and execute comprehensive test cases, conduct code reviews, perform debugging, and troubleshoot issues to ensure the reliability, stability, and high quality of digital solutions.
- Participate in agile or other development methodologies, attend meetings, contribute to project planning, and help drive the progress and success of digital projects.
- Explore new tools, frameworks, and techniques to improve digital solutions and drive innovation within the development team.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including system designs, architecture diagrams, code documentation, and other relevant documentation while sharing their knowledge and expertise with team members, ensuring effective knowledge transfer and collaboration.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience with Workday.
- 3+ years of experience focused on Workday configurable security.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with role-based, user-based, job-based, rule-based, intersection, aggregation, and segment-based security groups.
- 3+ years of experience with domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, and organization constraints.
- 3+ years of experience supporting HCM and Compensation security in a complex enterprise environment.
- 3+ years of experience with Workday report security, including data-source and field-level domain analysis.
- 3+ years of experience with integration security, including Integration System Users (ISUs), Integration System Security Groups (ISSGs), integration domains, and EIB security.
- 2+ years of experience supporting access reviews, audit evidence, segregation-of-duties analysis, and security controls.
- 2+ years of experience using ServiceNow, Jira, or comparable work-management platforms.
- 2+ years demonstrating strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Workday Pro Security certification.
- Experience supporting a large, highly regulated enterprise Workday environment.
- Knowledge of SOX controls, privacy requirements, data classification, and privileged-access governance.
- Experience with Workday Reporting, Security Administration Hub, Prism, integrations, and release-management practices.
- Healthcare industry experience.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Human Resources Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$83,430.00 - $222,480.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/30/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
CVS Health is seeking an experienced Senior Workday Security Engineer to join the HR Technology Workday Security team. This role designs, supports, governs, and optimizes security across the Workday platform, with a primary focus on HCM, Compensation, Reporting, and Access Management.
The role partners with HR, Compensation, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, Reporting, and HR Technology teams to protect sensitive workforce data, apply least-privilege access, improve operational controls, and support security modernization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, configure, and maintain Workday security groups, roles, domains, and business process security policies.
- Support security requirements across HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Talent, Recruiting, and Reporting.
- Troubleshoot complex access issues, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver clear remediation recommendations.
- Manage Workday security access requests and approvals through ServiceNow, with complete documentation and traceability.
- Apply least-privilege and segregation-of-duties principles; support periodic access reviews and remediation.
- Analyze custom-report sharing, data sources, and field-level domains to prevent inappropriate data exposure.
- Support audit, risk, privacy, and compliance activities by producing accurate evidence and maintaining control documentation.
- Own and maintain SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, role matrices, security inventories, and change records.
- Track operational metrics, ticket volumes, SLA performance, backlog trends, and recurring access issues.
- Support Workday release impact assessments, sandbox-first testing, migrations, and controlled production deployment.
- Contribute to security re-architecture, role redesign, security standardization, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Cross train team members and build reusable documentation to reduce key-person dependency.
- Design and define the technical architecture and infrastructure required for digital solutions.
- Write code, develop software components, and implement complex functionalities according to project requirements.
- Integrate various software components or systems, ensuring seamless communication and interoperability between different parts of the digital solution.
- Write and execute comprehensive test cases, conduct code reviews, perform debugging, and troubleshoot issues to ensure the reliability, stability, and high quality of digital solutions.
- Participate in agile or other development methodologies, attend meetings, contribute to project planning, and help drive the progress and success of digital projects.
- Explore new tools, frameworks, and techniques to improve digital solutions and drive innovation within the development team.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including system designs, architecture diagrams, code documentation, and other relevant documentation while sharing their knowledge and expertise with team members, ensuring effective knowledge transfer and collaboration.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience with Workday.
- 3+ years of experience focused on Workday configurable security.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with role-based, user-based, job-based, rule-based, intersection, aggregation, and segment-based security groups.
- 3+ years of experience with domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, and organization constraints.
- 3+ years of experience supporting HCM and Compensation security in a complex enterprise environment.
- 3+ years of experience with Workday report security, including data-source and field-level domain analysis.
- 3+ years of experience with integration security, including Integration System Users (ISUs), Integration System Security Groups (ISSGs), integration domains, and EIB security.
- 2+ years of experience supporting access reviews, audit evidence, segregation-of-duties analysis, and security controls.
- 2+ years of experience using ServiceNow, Jira, or comparable work-management platforms.
- 2+ years demonstrating strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Workday Pro Security certification.
- Experience supporting a large, highly regulated enterprise Workday environment.
- Knowledge of SOX controls, privacy requirements, data classification, and privileged-access governance.
- Experience with Workday Reporting, Security Administration Hub, Prism, integrations, and release-management practices.
- Healthcare industry experience.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Human Resources Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$83,430.00 - $222,480.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/30/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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What Pennsylvania Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in security engineer jobs across Pennsylvania.
- Active security certifications such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, or CISM recognized by Pennsylvania employers
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a closely related field
- Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, endpoint protection tools, and vulnerability management systems
- Ability to obtain or maintain a U.S. government security clearance for Pennsylvania defense-sector roles
- Experience designing and implementing zero-trust network architecture or cloud security frameworks
- Familiarity with NIST Cybersecurity Framework and regulatory compliance requirements applicable to Pennsylvania industries
Security Engineer Jobs in Pennsylvania: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a security engineer in Pennsylvania?
Pennsylvania does not issue a state-specific license for security engineers, so the path runs through education and industry certification. Most employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or information technology, combined with credentials like CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or CEH. Defense contractors and government agencies in Pennsylvania additionally require candidates to qualify for a federal security clearance before or shortly after hiring.
How much do security engineers make in Pennsylvania?
Security engineers in Pennsylvania earn a median of about $107,230 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $59,890 for the lowest 10% to over $167,420 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire security engineers in Pennsylvania?
Employers hiring security engineers in Pennsylvania right now include Carnegie Mellon University, Jacobs, and Citizens, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Pennsylvania's concentration of defense primes, large health systems, and financial institutions means consistent demand across both private and public-sector organizations throughout the state.
Which Pennsylvania cities have the most security engineer jobs?
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania account for the largest share of security engineer openings in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia drives volume through its financial services firms, major health systems like Jefferson and Penn Medicine, and federal agency satellite offices, while Pittsburgh's base of Carnegie Mellon-linked technology companies and UPMC's enterprise security needs sustains steady demand in the west.
Are there remote security engineer jobs in Pennsylvania?
Yes, and more than most technical fields. About 65% of security engineer openings tied to Pennsylvania are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how much of the work involves monitoring dashboards, reviewing alerts, and configuring cloud-based tools rather than physical presence. Roles requiring hands-on hardware work or classified government clearance environments are the main exceptions that remain fully on-site.
How can I get hired as a security engineer in Pennsylvania with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point is a security operations center analyst role, which large Pennsylvania health systems like UPMC and Penn Medicine and defense employers like Lockheed Martin actively hire for at the associate level. Completing a CompTIA Security+ certification before applying strengthens early applications considerably. Community college cybersecurity programs across Pennsylvania, including those at HACC and Community College of Philadelphia, also place graduates directly with regional employers through established hiring partnerships.
Where can I find and apply to security engineer jobs in Pennsylvania?
You can find and apply to security engineer jobs in Pennsylvania on Migrate Mate, which lists current Pennsylvania openings across industries and experience levels. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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