Senior Security Engineer, Platforms & AI Enablement

ConnectOS; Metro Manila; Hybrid; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Medical, Dental, Life insurance

Paid vacation and sick leave

Competitive salary & appraisal

Financial assistance

13th month pay

Sleeping quarters

Wellness facilities

Company events & work-life balance

Metro Manila location

Job summary

ConnectOS is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for Platforms, Digital Workplace & AI Enablement in Metro Manila. You will lead hands-on security engineering across security platforms, vulnerability management, patch governance, reporting, automation, penetration testing and AI-enabled security initiatives.

Responsibilities include maintaining security platforms, driving baselines and standards, managing incidents, and engaging stakeholders to translate needs into practical secure solutions.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience as a senior security engineer across 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. Able to design both tactical 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 ownership and accountability.
• Quick learner with ability to pick up new platforms rapidly across a broad tool set.
• Working knowledge of how AI works, with interest in building AI agents and applying AI to security and workplace use cases.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Hands-on security engineering

Vulnerability management

Patching governance

SIEM/SOAR & detection engineering

DLP / CASB / SaaS security

Stakeholder engagement

Microsoft Defender suite

Penetration testing governance

Documentation & runbooks

AI in security

Cross-platform security

Tools

Splunk

Ivanti Neurons

Netskope

Microsoft Defender

Intune

Purview

Job description

ConnectOS is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for Platforms, Digital Workplace & AI Enablement in Metro Manila. You will lead hands-on security engineering across security platforms, vulnerability management, patch governance, reporting, automation, penetration testing and AI-enabled security initiatives.

Responsibilities include maintaining security platforms, driving baselines and standards, managing incidents, and engaging stakeholders to translate needs into practical secure solutions.