Platform Security Engineer (DevSecOps)

Quberesearchandtechnologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) in the United Kingdom seeks a hands-on Security Platform Engineer to own scalable security, identity, secrets, and trust capabilities across engineering and research environments.

You will build platforms as code, automate workflows, and reduce operational toil while ensuring secure patterns across the organisation. This role emphasizes execution, collaboration with platform owners, and delivering practical security solutions that enable rapid delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security/platform/infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong engineering judgement and systems thinking.
• Excellent communication and curiosity.
• Pragmatic balance of security, usability and delivery.
• Ability to automate repetitive work.
• Understand how systems work and address root causes.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, applications, security and people.

Responsibilities

• Own security platform capabilities end-to-end.
• Build and operate security platforms as code.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities to reduce toil.
• Automate identity, secrets and trust workflows.
• Define and evolve authentication patterns across the organisation.
• Develop integrations and Vault extensions where valuable.
• Debug production issues across infrastructure, apps and platforms.
• Help teams adopt secure patterns without slowing delivery.
• Reduce operational toil through automation and standardised security patterns.

Skills

Security engineering

Platform engineering

Identity management

Automation

Communication

Systems thinking

Programming (Python/Go/Bash)

Kubernetes/AWS

GitOps/CI/CD

OIDC/JWT

Vault/Terrraform

Tools

Vault

Terraform

Python

Go

Bash

Kubernetes

AWS

GitOps/CI/CD

OIDC/JWT

SailPoint

PrivX

CyberArk

Job description

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology- and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high-quality returns for our investors.

You will join a team focused on building scalable security, identity, secrets, and trust capabilities across QRT’s engineering and research environments. As these environments grow, manual security, identity, and trust processes can become bottlenecks. The team works closely with engineering teams and platform owners to create secure capabilities that are practical, automated, and easy to adopt.

Your Future Role within QRT

• Security Platform Engineering
• Build and operate security platforms as code.
• Build reusable platform capabilities that reduce operational complexity over time.
• Automate identity, secrets, and trust workflows.
• Define and evolve secrets, identity, and workload authentication patterns across the organisation.
• Develop custom integrations, tooling, and Vault extensions where they provide clear operational value.
• Debug production issues across infrastructure, applications, and platforms.
• Help teams adopt secure patterns without slowing delivery.
• Reduce operational toil through automation, platform engineering, and standardised security patterns.

Your Present Skillset

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, identity and access management, or a related technical discipline
• Strong engineering judgement and systems thinking
• Strong communication skills and curiosity
• Pragmatic approach to balancing security, usability, and delivery
• Ability to automate repetitive work and reduce manual processes
• Ability to understand how systems work and solve root causes rather than symptoms
• Comfortable working across infrastructure, applications, security, and people
• Experience or interest in technologies such as Vault, Terraform, Python, Go, Bash, Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps/CI/CD, OIDC/JWT, SailPoint, PrivX, and CyberArk
• Ability to learn missing tools quickly

This is a hands-on production role. You will own the outcomes of the systems you build and help shape how secrets, identity, and trust capabilities evolve across the organisation.

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we offer initiatives and programmes to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

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