Senior Security Engineer (AU Education, Hybrid)

About The Role

The Senior Security Engineer - Platforms, Digital Workplace & AI Enablement sits within Cyber Security Platforms and Engineering team and provides senior, hands-on engineering capability across security platforms, Digital Workplace security, vulnerability management, patching governance, reporting, automation, penetration testing, AI enablement and security engineering practices.

The role supports the Cyber Security Platforms and Engineering roadmap across Microsoft Defender, Intune, Purview, Defender for Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Netskope, Splunk, Ivanti Neurons, and other platforms within the team's ownership boundary.

Key Areas of Accountability

• Design, configure, maintain, optimise and continuously improve IDP's core security platforms as reliable products.
• Drive secure baselines, platform standards, operational health, monitoring, upgrades, incident/problem management, vendor case management and lifecycle management.
• Identify platform gaps, configuration drift and operational risks; proactively recommend and execute remediation plans.
• Provide technical leadership across Microsoft Defender, Intune, Purview, Defender for Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Netskope, Splunk and Ivanti Neurons
• Engage with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements, pain points and risks, and translate them into pragmatic technical options.
• Vulnerability management and patching capability across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, SaaS and workplace devices.
• Security testing and penetration testing capability by coordinating findings, remediation tracking, reporting and knowledge sharing.
• Connect pen testing outcomes with vulnerability management, patching, secure configuration, platform standards and risk reporting.
• Operationalise DLP, CASB and SaaS controls across Netskope and Microsoft 365 / Purview.
• Design and maintain practical exception pathways with appropriate approvals, auditability and alignment to access controls.

• Significant hands-on experience as a senior security engineer across security platforms, infrastructure, endpoint, cloud or modern workplace security.
• Practical experience with vulnerability management, patching governance, remediation tracking, reporting and security compliance uplift.
• Experience with SIEM/SOAR, detection engineering, dashboards, alerting and automation, preferably Splunk.
• Understanding of DLP, CASB, SaaS security, EDR, secure configuration baselines and access governance.
• Proven ability to engage with business stakeholders and translate requirements into practical secure solutions. Proven ability to design both tactical short-term fixes and strategic long-term solutions.
• Strong technical capability across Microsoft Defender, Intune, Purview, Defender for Office 365, Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.
• Demonstrated experience supporting penetration testing programmes and remediation governance.
• Strong documentation capability including runbooks, SOPs, service boundaries and operational reporting.
• Self-managed, proactive and comfortable working with ambiguity; strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Quick learner with the ability to pick up new platforms and processes rapidly across a broad tool set.
• Working knowledge of how AI works, with active interest in building AI agents and applying AI to security and workplace use cases.

• Hybrid Work Arrangement
• Medical, Dental Coverage and Life insurance from day 1 of employment
• Paid Vacation and Sick Leave (with Quarterly Sick Leave Conversion)
• Competitive salary package and annual appraisal
• Financial Assistance Program
• Mandatory Government Benefits and 13th Month Pay
• Complimentary Sleeping Quarters, Coffee at no cost
• Complimentary Office Fitness and Wellness Facilities at no cost
• Regular Company Events, Work Life Balance, and Career growth opportunities
• Accessible location at the heart of Metro Manila --- the Mega Tower, EDSA

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