Cybersecurity Platform Engineer

At
Link Snacks
, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.

We’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands:
Jack Link’s® , Lorissa’s™ Organic Snacks, Golden Island® , BiFi® , Peperami® and KOOEE!® to name a few, there’s nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it.

Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.

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 RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead 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 , 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,…