Senior Systems Engineer

Wellington Management; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Office 4 days/week, remote 1 day

Job summary

Wellington Management in London seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to fortify attack surfaces through vulnerability management, CNAPP usage, and secure software development lifecycle practices. You will automate security workflows and drive hardening baselines in partnership with development and risk teams.

The role requires hands-on experience with vulnerability platforms, scripting, and cloud security, with a strong inclination toward curious problem-solving and collaboration across global teams.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Information Systems or related IT field.
• Experience creating new processes to address evolving attack surfaces.
• Excellent written and spoken communication across diverse teams.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Perform vulnerability assessments and communicate risk to stakeholders.
• Leverage CNAPP and guidance to fix issues.
• Bridge security with development in the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead urgent vulnerability responses and misconfiguration events.
• Automate workflows using scripting and AI to shorten delivery times.
• Develop and mature internal security baselines aligned with CIS Controls.
• Stay updated on threats and map them to attack surfaces.
• Review threat intel for vulnerabilities affecting Wellington.
• Collaborate with Third-Party Risk to assess ecosystem exposures.
• Contribute to team docs on processes and tools.

Skills

Curiosity

Communication

Mentoring

Global teamwork

Threat intelligence

Education

BS degree in Information Systems/related discipline

Tools

WIZ CNAPP

Qualys

Python

AWS IaC

Splunk

JFrog Artifactory

JFrog Curation

ServiceNow

Azure

MS Intune

Anthropic Claude

Job description

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 50 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

THE POSITION

TheAttack Surface Management team is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to be a key member of our team. This engineer will assist in the minimization of potential attack surfaces through vulnerability management, cloud configuration assessments, incorporating threat intelligence from public and private sources, and work internally to build, enhance, and automate policies, standards, and processes. They will be working with various technologies that surface vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, end-of-life software, and other vectors. The ideal candidate is one that has a passion for cyber-security, is naturally curious, and is willing to think outside the box to find creative solutions to challenges.

Detailed responsibilities

• Perform assessments and communicate to stakeholders on the likelihood of exploitation and potential impact of vulnerabilities, misconfiguration findings, and other potential vectors to determine the appropriate course of action to mitigate potential risk.
• Leverage Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) technology to assess findings and contribute guidance and expertise to application custodians on fixing issues.
• Act as a security liaison between Information Security and the Development staff to bring a security mindset to the software development lifecycle. Assess and understand the Wellington CI/CD pipeline to be able to provide recommendations to developers for securing their code.
• Lead urgent vulnerability response, misconfiguration events, or otherwise assist with Cyber Defense as needed.
• Use scripting and AI to automate manual workflows, assist with data assessments, and shorten time gaps from ideas to outputs.
• Develop and mature an internal security hardening and baselines program. This effort develops standards and processes to ensure attack surface risk is reduced, and configuration baselines are met both according to CIS Controls and cyber threats actively targeting the firm.
• Stayupto date withcurrent andrelevant cyber security threatsas well as any associated countermeasures. Participate in internal meetings to map industry cyber threats to our current attack surface.
• Review of both internal and open-source threat intelligence sources for recently disclosed vulnerabilities at risk of introduction into the Wellington environment.
• Work with our Third-Party Risk team to engage third parties in Wellington’s vendor ecosystem to understand when third and fourth parties may be exposed to critical vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to team documentation for updates to existing processes, new processes, assessment tool infrastructure details and workflows.
• Contribute to firmwide documentation by being an SME contributor to policies and standards.

NON-TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• A Passion for cyber-security is a must.
• Ability to self-motivate, with an eagerness to dig into potential risks. Ask questions, be curious, dig deeper.
• BS degreein Information Systems/related discipline or equivalent IT work experience
• Experience in developing new processes and procedures that match evolving attack surfaces.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with a proven ability to effectively interact with teams representing a wide variety of technical disciplines.
• Ability to work with global teamseffectively.
• Ability to mentor junior team members and share discoveries about your work.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with both WIZ CNAPP and Qualys vulnerability management platforms.
• Hands-on experience with vulnerability assessment software and prioritizing results using a combination of various frameworks tied to internal objects (CVE, CVSS, EPSS, etc.).
• Knowledge of common cyber-attack types such as DDoS, SQLi, XSS, and others. This experience is relied upon to make rational decisions in our baselines program.
• Previous experience assessing, documenting, and communicating information security risk, particularly related to cyber vulnerabilities is preferred.
• Experience in the use of common scripting languages such as python to automate job functions.
• Working knowledge of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) concepts, especially with AWS.
• Knowledge in the areas of network architecture and engineering and software application development
• Working knowledge of the use of threat intelligence feeds and resources
• Preferred: Experience working with Splunk, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Curation (or similar), ServiceNow, AWS Services, MS Azure, MS Intune, Anthropic Claude
• Preferred: Home labs, security practitioner meetups, research, we would love to hear it!

JOB TITLE

Senior Systems Engineer

JOB FAMILY

Systems Administration

LOCATION

London

EEO Statement

As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management considers all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [e-mail]__.

Benefits

• We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.