Security engineer

Union Bancaire Privée; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Union Bancaire Privée in Geneva seeks a hands-on Security Engineer to design, build, and operate secure-by-design controls protecting the bank's platforms, data, and applications. You will implement and maintain security tools to prevent, detect, and respond to threats in a regulated financial environment.

You will review designs, enforce secure configurations, support incident response, monitor SLAs, and drive continuous improvement while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 3–7+ years of experience in Security Engineering or related field.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS/Info Security or related field.
• Experience with security platforms, incident response, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, deploy, and maintain security platforms and controls (PAM, DAM, CSPM, DLP, Vulnerability Management).
• Review application designs and verify compliance with security requirements; provide actionable guidance and track remediation.
• Implement security-by-design and security-by-default patterns across infrastructure, applications, and data services.
• Perform operational duties for ticketing: triage, prioritize, and resolve security tickets; escalations as needed.
• Define secure configuration baselines and compliance checks.
• Support incident response lifecycle: containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident improvements; contribute to root cause analysis.
• Monitor cyber platform SLAs/KPIs and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Security engineering

Automation

Reliability

Platform tooling

Education

Master's degree in CS/Info Security

Tools

PAM

DAM

CSPM

DLP

Vulnerability Management

Job description

Mission

Design, build, and operate secure-by-design controls and services that protect the Bank’s platforms, applications, and data. Implement and maintain security tools to prevent, detect, and respond to threats, ensuring resilience, reliability, and compliance with banking regulations.

Main responsibilities

• Engineer, deploy, and maintain security platforms and controls (PAM, DAM, CSPM, DLP, Vulnerability Management).
• Review application designs and verify compliance with security requirements; provide actionable guidance, identify gaps, and track remediation through to closure.
• Implement security-by-design and security-by-default patterns across infrastructure, applications, and data services.
• Perform operational duties for ticketing: triage, prioritize, and resolve security tickets; escal...
• Define secure configuration baselines, and compliance checks.
• Support incident response lifecycle: containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident improvements; contribute to root cause analysis.
• Monitor cyber platform SLAs/KPIs (availability, performance, coverage, detection efficacy) and drive continuous improvement.

Your Profile

• Hands-on security engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for automation and reliability.
• Able to translate security requirements into practical, scalable engineering solutions aligned to a regulated financial environment.
• Comfortable with modern platform tooling.

Education

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field.

ExperienceTechnical skills

• Mid to Senior: 3–7+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Security Operations Engineering, or Secure Platform Engineering.

Languages

• French: Fluent
• English: Strong advantage

Personal skills

• Self-motivated with ownership mindset; able to operate strategically while remaining hands-on when needed.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to translate technical risk into business impact.
• Strong critical thinking, analytical problem-solving, and decision-making under pressure.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex, multi-department initiatives.
• High integrity, resilience, and commitment to continuous improvement.

Others

• Swiss Residence: Mandatory

Core Competencies : Adherence to the company’s values: Dedication, Conviction, Agility and Responsibility - Compliance with regulations and internal directives