Senior Security Engineer

IDP; Chennai District; On-site; INR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

IDP is seeking a Senior Security Engineer - Platforms, Digital Workplace AI Enablement to lead security platform engineering, vulnerability management, and AI-enabled security initiatives.

You will collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, automated security solutions and drive both tactical fixes and long-term roadmaps across Defender, Intune, Purview, SharePoint, OneDrive, and more.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Security platform engineering

Vulnerability management

Patching governance

Penetration testing

AI enablement

Automation

SIEM/SOAR

Detection engineering

DLP & SaaS security

Access governance

Documentation

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Splunk

SIEM

SOAR

Netskope

Ivanti Neurons

Microsoft Defender

Intune

Purview

SharePoint

OneDrive

Defender for Office 365

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Security Engineer - Platforms, Digital Workplace AI Enablement sits within IDPs 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 teams ownership boundary.

The successful candidate will also support IDPs 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.