Senior Cyber Security Engineer; M365
Listed on 2026-10-05
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity
We are seeking a full-time Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for developing security roadmaps, standards, and control strategies that protect enterprise collaboration, communication, identity, endpoint, and data environments. This position partners across Cyber Security, IT platform teams, and business stakeholders to strengthen protection, detection, and response capabilities in alignment with Garmin's broader security architecture and risk-management objectives.
This is a build-and-operationalize role focused on translating security direction into practical, scalable, and supportable capabilities. The individual develops security standards, guides implementation priorities, and works closely with partner teams responsible for platform administration, identity services, endpoint management, security operations, architecture, and data governance. The role may also support broader endpoint security initiatives as needed, while maintaining a primary focus on M365 and modern-workplace security.
EssentialFunctions
- Serve as a trusted advisor to other cybersecurity teams and to Garmin business segments on multiple domains in cybersecurity
- Mentor and develop a team of highly skilled security professionals, promoting knowledge transfer, skill development, and a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- Proactively evaluate and design improvements to tool integrations and workflows, developing advanced automation and scripts and optimizing the use of security tool APIs
- Lead planning for project components, provide reliable progress reporting, and ensure cross-team alignment on schedules, risks, and deliverables
- Design and develop complex, integrated solutions to meet business requirements and enhance the performance of Garmin's security systems
- Contribute to the team roadmap and priorities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities that increase efficiency and reduce manual processes
- Participate in the evaluation and adoption of emerging security technologies to improve threat detection, prevention, and response
- Advise leadership on strategic technology investments to advance cybersecurity engineering capabilities
- Creates opportunities to share knowledge, skills, and abilities with other team members to further their professional development through training, mentoring, and hands-on assistance as appropriate
- Drive the roadmap, standards, and control strategy for modern-workplace security, translating security architecture into practical, scalable capabilities.
- Define secure configuration baselines, control expectations, reporting measures, and delivery priorities that improve program maturity and reduce risk.
- Design and guide implementation of security capabilities for email, collaboration, productivity, identity, endpoint, and enterprise content platforms.
- Establish data-protection, access-governance, external-collaboration, and AI-enabled productivity security requirements in partnership with platform, data privacy, and security teams.
- Partner with identity, endpoint, and platform teams to align access controls, application governance, and device-security expectations with enterprise security standards.
- Ensure relevant security telemetry, detection use cases, and response processes support monitoring, investigation, incident response, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute subject-matter expertise to incident response, investigation, containment, and remediation activities involving modern-workplace security threats.
- Assess security posture over time, prioritize remediation opportunities, evaluate capability enhancements, and define resilience expectations with responsible platform teams.
- Use automation, repeatable processes, and control validation to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and long-term sustainability of security capabilities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor across Cyber Security, IT platform teams, Data Privacy, and business stakeholders to coordinate scope, ownership, and execution of the modern-workplace security roadmap.
- Demonstrate broad understanding of Garmin's business model, including Engineering, Operations, Finance, Sales, and Marketing.
- Stay informed on advancements in modern-workplace security, identity, information protection, endpoint security, and the evolving AI threat landscape, and advise leadership on strategic investments to advance…
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