# M&A Collaboration & Security Platforms Engineer

**Company:** [Kraken](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kraken)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $110k – $221k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Okta, Dmarc, Spf, Dkim, DNS, Ediscovery, Global Relay, Smarsh, Virtru, Dlp
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> Owns productivity and collaboration platforms (Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom) across Payward's portfolio of brands, with primary focus on end-to-end M&A integration, migrations, security hardening, compliance archiving, and governance. Requires 4-6 years experience with complex migrations and regulated environments.

## Job Description

## M&A Integration (Core Focus)
- Drive collaboration-platform integration end-to-end for each acquisition: scope, plan, execute, and close migrations of users, Slack channels, Google Workspace Drive, mailboxes, and configurations.
- Assess acquired-company collaboration stacks during/after diligence for security and compliance gaps.
- Rationalize overlapping tools across brands; decide what migrates, sunsets, or stays.
- Build repeatable playbooks, tooling, and automation for faster integrations.
- Coordinate cutover timelines and TSA dependencies with Corporate Development, Legal, and acquired teams.

## Collaboration Platforms
- Own Google Workspace, Slack, and Zoom at multi-entity enterprise scale (architecture, governance, licensing, configuration, operations).
- Build and maintain integrations with identity and security stack (Okta, Global Relay, eDiscovery, archiving).
- Define and enforce cross-brand governance standards; build automation for secure defaults.

## Email & Domain Security
- Own email security infrastructure: filtering, quarantine, impersonation defenses, DMARC/SPF/DKIM.
- Manage large multi-registrar, multi-brand domain portfolio (Cloudflare, MarkMonitor); lead DNS migrations, audits, consolidation.
- Respond to phishing, insider threats, and anomalous domain activity.

## Compliance & Legal Support
- Lead legal hold management, eDiscovery queries, and data productions across email, Slack, Google Drive.
- Architect and maintain compliant archiving (Global Relay, Smarsh, Virtru).
- Produce and defend evidence for regulatory/audit obligations (17a-4, ISO).

## Security & Access Control
- Design and maintain DLP rules, group access controls, data access policies.
- Lead insider threat reduction, access revocation, high-risk extension management, public channel governance.
- Own platform-level incident response, investigation, containment, and improvement.

## Tooling & Vendor Management
- Evaluate, onboard, consolidate, and sunset SaaS tools across collaboration and security stack.
- Lead vendor relationships, procurement, renewals; make build-vs-buy-vs-sunset decisions.
- Build automation to reduce toil and improve governance.

## Requirements
- 4–6 years hands-on experience administering Google Workspace and Slack at 1,000+ user companies, including complex migrations and governance.
- Demonstrated experience owning or leading technology migrations in M&A or systems-consolidation context (ideally multiple).
- Solid email security experience (filtering, quarantine, DMARC/SPF/DKIM, impersonation defense, threat response).
- DNS administration and domain portfolio management at scale.
- Direct experience with compliance/legal workflows, legal holds, eDiscovery, regulatory data productions, and compliant archiving platforms.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience integrating multiple acquired companies' collaboration stacks into a single parent environment.
- Experience with Global Relay, Smarsh, Virtru, or comparable archiving platforms.
- Familiarity with Okta and its integration patterns with Google Workspace and Slack.
- Experience managing large domain portfolio across multiple registrars and DNS providers.
- Exposure to eDiscovery and legal hold tooling.
- Comfort in regulated industry (financial services, crypto, fintech).

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