Cybersecurity Platform Engineer

Link Snacks is hiring a Cybersecurity Platform Engineer within the Global IT organization to drive the build-out, configuration, automation, and ongoing enhancement of enterprise cybersecurity platforms. The role acts as a technical owner for core Microsoft security capabilities, with a focus on Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, cloud security, and identity and access management (IAM), helping mature controls across global environments.

This onsite position is based in Minneapolis, MN and offers a salary range of USD 115, per year.

• Lead engineering, administration, and continuous improvement for 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 across data protection and information governance, including data loss prevention
  , insider risk
  , eDiscovery support
  , retention, sensitivity labeling, and compliance-driven control enforcement.
• Engineer cloud security controls for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 environments, including secure configuration baselines, cloud security posture management, workload protection, logging, alerting, policy enforcement, and remediation tracking.
• Own identity and access management engineering activities across Entra and Active Directory
  , including Conditional Access
  , privileged access, access reviews, identity lifecycle automation, service accounts, guest access, and secure authentication patterns.
• Develop automation, scripts, integrations, and repeatable processes to improve platform reliability, reduce manual effort, standardize controls, and support consistent enforcement globally.
• Partner with security operations, MDR, SIEM, infrastructure, network, application, data, OT, and business teams to integrate cybersecurity platforms into 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 tied to regulatory and cybersecurity framework requirements.
• Define and report platform health and security metrics, including control effectiveness, adoption, remediation progress, secure configuration status, and other actionable indicators for technical teams and leadership.
• Evaluate emerging platform capabilities, Microsoft security roadmap changes, cloud security trends, and industry best practices, and recommend improvements to strengthen the organization’s security posture.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience (education is listed as incomplete in the source and may include an additional condition).
• 4+ years of hands‑on experience engineering, administering, or improving cybersecurity platforms across Microsoft security, cloud security, identity, endpoint, data protection, or security operations domains.
• Strong foundation in cybersecurity platform engineering across endpoint security, cloud security, IAM, data protection, compliance controls, automation, and incident response support.
• Proficiency with Microsoft security and identity technologies plus Windows
  , Linux
  , Power Shell
  , scripting,
  API‑based integrations
  , and automation of security operations processes.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender
  , Microsoft Purview
  , Microsoft Entra ,
  Microsoft Intune
  , Active Directory
  , Microsoft Sentinel
  , and Microsoft 365 security and compliance capabilities.
• Skills in platform configuration, log analysis, alert tuning, dashboarding, control validation, secure baseline development, and remediation tracking.
• Proven ability to secure both IT and OT networks, including incident response, alert triage, and vulnerability management.
• Ability to manage identity and access controls, including Active Directory administration and privileged access management.
• Experience enforcing technical policies and executing cybersecurity strategies across enterprise environments.
• Experience with frameworks such as ISO 27001
  , NIST CSF
  , and GDPR
  .
• Ability to manage vendor relationships and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders on security incidents and compliance matters.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, risk management, encryption,…