Qube Research & Technologies - Senior Security Engineer
Requirements
• Substantial security engineering experience in complex enterprise environments, including ownership of major initiatives spanning multiple teams. • Deep practical expertise in several relevant security domains, such as identity, privileged access, endpoint or cloud security, infrastructure hardening, secrets management, PKI, data protection or detection engineering. • Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, Active Directory, modern identity platforms, networking, authentication and hybrid infrastructure. • Ability to work at both architecture and implementation level, with strong automation skills and experience using version control and delivery pipelines. • Experience operating reliable production services, including upgrades, configuration management, monitoring, resilience and recovery. • Sound risk judgement, clear communication and the ability to influence stakeholders, resolve dependencies and deliver under ambiguous requirements. • Experience mentoring engineers and providing senior technical support during incidents and in an on-call environment. • Desirable to have experience or a willingness to learn in the following areas: • Quantitative trading, financial services or other environments with demanding availability and performance requirements. • Security services spanning multiple regions, clouds and data centres, including migration from legacy platforms.
Responsibilities
• The role is expected to involve the following activities: • Own security initiatives from discovery and design through delivery and ongoing operation, coordinating dependencies across teams and regions. • Set technical direction and engineering standards, balancing security, reliability, performance and operational cost. • Build and improve controls across identity and privileged access, endpoints, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, data protection and security monitoring. • Identify security weaknesses and attack paths, prioritise them by business impact and deliver practical remediation. • Automate deployment and operations through APIs, scripting and infrastructure as code, with appropriate testing and rollback procedures. • Deliver resilient, supportable services with effective monitoring, runbooks and recovery procedures. Share responsibility for maintenance, support and troubleshooting. • Participate in the security on-call rota, responding outside normal working hours as required. Lead complex incident troubleshooting and follow through on corrective actions. • Partner with Security, Infrastructure, IT and development teams to integrate controls and drive adoption. Evaluate technologies through testing and ensure successful operational handover. • Mentor junior engineers through coaching and design reviews, acting as a senior technical escalation point.
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