The Senior Security Engineer - Platforms, Digital Workplace & AI Enablement sits within IDP's 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.

This role is designed for a highly technical, experienced and proactive engineer who works beyond task execution. The successful candidate will engage with business and technology stakeholders, understand requirements, translate needs into practical security solutions, and contribute to both tactical short-term fixes and strategic long-term roadmap outcomes.

As IDP moves towards a domain-led, platform-driven operating model, this role will help mature security and Digital Workplace platforms move from reactive support into a standardised, measurable, automated and well-governed capability, with specific focus on uplifting the newly integrated Digital Workplace team.





The role supports the 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.

The successful candidate will also support IDP's AI-ready security engineering direction by understanding how AI works, being on the path to building AI agents, safely applying AI to reduce toil, contributing to automation use cases, and helping improve process maturity across security platforms.

Key Performance Areas & Platform Engineering & Technical Leadership

Act as a senior hands-on technical engineer across IDP's Security Platforms and Engineering capability.
Design, configure, maintain, optimise and continuously improve IDP's core security platforms as reliable products.
Drive secure baselines, platform standards, operational health, monitoring, upgrades,

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