Senior Security Platform Engineer & Automation Lead

CITADEL; Taguig; On-site; PHP 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Competitive total rewards

Performance bonus

Job summary

CITADEL Pacific is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in the Philippines to lead the design and delivery of priority cybersecurity controls. You will own technical strategy for security platforms, identity and access management, data protection, and cloud security, while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

You will guide implementation, maintain operational excellence, and mentor analysts as an individual contributor.

Qualifications

• Graduate of IT or any IT-related field.
• Minimum 7 years of hands-on cybersecurity, security engineering or closely related enterprise technology experience, with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Experience across IAM/PAM, endpoint/EDR, MDM, DLP/Purview, email security, SIEM/telemetry, vulnerability management, cloud security, automation or security service edge.
• Experience delivering enterprise security implementations from requirements and design through testing, handover and operational improvement.
• Strong scripting, API, troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder-management capability.
• Ability to lead through influence across Infrastructure, Cloud, Applications, Risk, Compliance, vendors and business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001, CIS Controls and Zero Trust principles.
• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem solving.
• Ownership mindset with the ability to drive outcomes independently.
• Clear communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Continuous improvement mindset and willingness to challenge inefficient processes.
• High attention to detail, documentation quality, and operational discipline.
• Security platform engineering, configuration, optimization, and lifecycle management.
• Vulnerability management, exposure management, and cyber risk prioritization.
• Security monitoring, telemetry onboarding, observability, and data quality management.
• Security automation, orchestration, scripting, and workflow optimization.
• API development, systems integration, and security technology interoperability.
• Cloud security concepts and common cloud platform security controls.
• Security architecture principles, secure design patterns, and operational control requirements.
• Technical documentation, runbook development, standards creation, and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical planning and delivery across PAM, DLP, MDM, Secure Email Gateway, SSE, Vulnerability and Exposure management, security monitoring, automation.
• Convert roadmap outcomes into requirements, designs, implementation plans, acceptance criteria, runbooks, metrics and operational handover.
• Prioritize work with the Cybersecurity Operations Head based on business risk, implementation readiness, dependencies and available capacity.
• Provide technical guidance to the Cybersecurity Analyst and coordinate delivery partners.
• Own administration, lifecycle management, integration, health monitoring and optimization of assigned cybersecurity platforms.
• Lead security log-source onboarding, telemetry validation and data-quality controls across cloud, endpoint, network, identity, email, application and infrastructure sources.
• Develop or oversee API, scripting, orchestration and workflow automation that reduces manual effort and improves response consistency.
• Maintain platform access governance, support procedures, technical standards, configuration baselines and service documentation.
• Lead PAM implementation and continuous improvement, including account discovery, vaulting, credential rotation, MFA, session controls, monitoring, JIT access and controlled vendor access.
• Partner with Infrastructure and application owners on onboarding privileged accounts, systems and legacy access use cases.

Skills

IAM/PAM

EDR/endpoint security

DLP

SIEM/telemetry

Cloud security

Automation

API scripting

Secure Email Gateway

Vulnerability management

Zero Trust

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

SIEM platforms

PAM tools

EDR tooling

Automation scripts

Job description

CITADEL Pacific is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in the Philippines to lead the design and delivery of priority cybersecurity controls. You will own technical strategy for security platforms, identity and access management, data protection, and cloud security, while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

You will guide implementation, maintain operational excellence, and mentor analysts as an individual contributor.