Link Snacks is seeking a Cybersecurity Platform Engineer to join our Global IT organization. This role is responsible for leading the development, configuration, automation, and continuous improvement of enterprise cybersecurity platforms, with a primary focus on Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, cloud security capabilities, and identity and access management (IAM). The Cybersecurity Platform Engineer serves as the technical owner for key security tools and capabilities, ensuring they are properly designed, integrated, governed, monitored, and optimized to reduce risk and support business objectives.This position requires deep hands-on engineering experience, strong cybersecurity fundamentals, and the ability to translate risk, compliance, and operational needs into scalable platform solutions. The Cybersecurity Platform Engineer will partner closely with infrastructure, networking, application, data, OT, and business teams to mature security controls across cloud, endpoint, identity, collaboration, and data protection environments. This role also requires strong automation, documentation, and communication skills to ensure security platforms are operationally sustainable, measurable, and aligned with global business needs.KEY RESPONSIBILITIESLead the engineering, administration, and continuous improvement of Microsoft Defender capabilities, including Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Identity, Defender XDR, and related security integrations.Design, implement, and mature Microsoft Purview capabilities for data protection, information governance, data loss prevention, insider risk, eDiscovery support, retention, sensitivity labeling, and compliance-driven control enforcement.Engineer cloud security controls across Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 environments, including secure configuration baselines, cloud security posture management, workload protection, logging, alerting, policy enforcement, and remediation tracking.Lead identity and access management engineering activities, including Entra ID, Active Directory, Conditional Access, privileged access, access reviews, identity lifecycle automation, service accounts, guest access, and secure authentication patterns.Develop automation, scripts, integrations, and repeatable processes that improve security platform reliability, reduce manual effort, standardize controls, and support consistent enforcement across global environments.Partner with security operations, MDR, SIEM, infrastructure, network, application, data, and OT teams to integrate cybersecurity platforms with detection, response, vulnerability management, incident response, and operational workflows.Create and maintain security platform standards, configuration baselines, procedures, runbooks, diagrams, operational documentation, and audit-ready evidence supporting regulatory and cybersecurity framework requirements.Define and report platform health, control effectiveness, adoption, remediation progress, secure configuration status, and other actionable security metrics for technical teams and leadership stakeholders.Evaluate emerging cybersecurity platform capabilities, Microsoft security roadmap changes, cloud security trends, and industry best practices to recommend practical improvements that strengthen the organization’s security posture.Perform other duties as assigned.
