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IDP Education

Senior Security Engineer

Chennai · Senior

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About IDP

IDP is the global leader in international education services, delivering global success to students, test takers and our partners, through trusted human relationships, digital technology and customer research. An Australian-listed company, we operate in more than 50 countries around the world.

Our team is comprised of over 7,000 people of various nationalities, ages and cultural backgrounds. Proudly customer-first, our expert people are powered by global technology. Together, we offer unmatched services, helping local dreams become realities, all over the world.

Learn more at www.careers.idp.com

Role purpose

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 accountabilities

  • Security Platform Engineering & Technical Leadership 
  • Strategy, Roadmap & Business Engagement
  • Vulnerability Management, Patching & Reporting Maturity
  • Penetration Testing & Security Testing Enablement
  • AI Understanding & AI Enablement
  • Data Protection, DLP & Saas Controls
  • Governance ,Risk ,Complinace &Audit Readiness
  • Self Managed ,Proactive Delivery &Continuous Improvement

Required experience

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.
•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. 
•Experience across Microsoft Defender, Intune, Purview,  SharePoint and OneDrive would be highly regarded and considered an added advantage.

 

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