Senior Security Engineer-Platforms, Digital Workplace & AI Enablement

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 & RESPONSIBILITIES Security 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, 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 Strategy, Roadmap & Business Engagement Partner with the Head of Security Platforms and Engineering to shape and deliver the team roadmap. Engage with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements, pain points and risks, and translate them into pragmatic technical options. Develop tactical solutions for urgent short-term issues and strategic solutions aligned to IDP's long-term security and workplace direction. Prepare clear solution options, recommendations, trade-offs and operational support models. Act as a trusted senior technical contact for security platforms and Digital Workplace security across the business. Vulnerability Management, Patching & Reporting Maturity Mature IDP's vulnerability management and patching capability across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, SaaS and workplace devices. Operate and uplift Ivanti Neurons and related reporting views for patching, vulnerability compliance, remediation accountability and executive visibility. Drive risk-based prioritisation using severity, exploitability, business context and known exploited vulnerability inputs. Partner with Infrastructure, Cloud Ops, Service Desk, SOC and Cyber & Technology Risk on practical remediation patterns. Deliver monthly reporting, dashboards, SLA tracking, exception management and audit-ready evidence. Penetration Testing & Security Testing Enablement Mature IDP's security testing and penetration testing capability by coordinating findings, remediation tracking, reporting and knowledge sharing. Work with internal stakeholders and external testing partners to ensure findings are understood, prioritised and translated into practical remediation actions. Connect pen testing outcomes with vulnerability management, patching, secure configuration, platform standards and risk reporting. Continuously improve testing processes, evidence collection, remediation governance and lessons learned. AI Understanding & Agent Enablement Maintain a strong working knowledge of how AI works including LLMs, prompt design, AI agents and safe AI adoption in enterprise security contexts. Be actively on the path to learning to build AI agents and contribute to IDP's agent-bas 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 rol