Lead Cyber Security Engineer — AI Security & Detection Automation

Xcede; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede is assisting a leading global investment manager in Hong Kong to hire a Cyber Security Engineer. This senior, engineering-led role acts as the security lead in Hong Kong, partnering with colleagues across the firm’s international offices to shape strategy and run day-to-day operations.

The successful candidate will bring experience from financial services or large tech environments, possessing expertise in security operations, threat hunting, detection engineering and security automation,

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in cyber security.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management (Puppet, Ansible).
• Knowledge of network security architecture and application security principles.
• Relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GCIH or GCFA are advantageous.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Experience of, or a strong interest in, using AI agents to automate security workflows, such as vulnerability discovery, validation and remediation, is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the global cyber security strategy and lead its execution in the region, as part of a single global team.
• Act as a first line of defence for security incidents, leading investigations through containment, eradication, recovery and root cause analysis.
• Continuously improve detection logic, automation and response playbooks to reduce MTTD and MTTR.
• Embed security controls into systems, applications and cloud platforms, and lead threat modelling sessions.
• Assess and mitigate security risks associated with AI/ML systems and contribute to secure AI lifecycle practices.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, End User Computing and wider technology teams.

Skills

Security Operations

Incident response

Threat hunting

Forensic analysis

Security engineering

Detection engineering

Python

PowerShell

Go

AI security

LLM security

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

Xcede is assisting a leading global investment manager in Hong Kong to hire a Cyber Security Engineer. This senior, engineering-led role acts as the security lead in Hong Kong, partnering with colleagues across the firm’s international offices to shape strategy and run day-to-day operations.

The successful candidate will bring experience from financial services or large tech environments, possessing expertise in security operations, threat hunting, detection engineering and security automation,