Security Platform Engineer: Secure-by-Design & Automation

UNION BANCAIRE PRIVÉE, UBP SA; Genf; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UBP SA, a Swiss private bank, seeks a hands-on Security Engineer to design, build, and operate secure-by-design controls protecting platforms, apps, and data. You will implement and maintain security tools to prevent, detect, and respond to threats, ensuring resilience, reliability, and banking regulatory compliance.

The role covers engineering, reviews of designs for compliance, and ongoing incident response support.

Qualifications

• 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 in a regulated financial environment.
• Comfortable with modern platform tooling.
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field.
• 3–7+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Security Operations Engineering, or Secure Platform Engineering.

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; 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

Problem solving

Automation

Stakeholder management

Education

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in CS/InfoSec/Engineering

Job description

UBP SA, a Swiss private bank, seeks a hands-on Security Engineer to design, build, and operate secure-by-design controls protecting platforms, apps, and data. You will implement and maintain security tools to prevent, detect, and respond to threats, ensuring resilience, reliability, and banking regulatory compliance.

The role covers engineering, reviews of designs for compliance, and ongoing incident response support.