Security Engineer

P2P; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-looking financial technology firm in Singapore is seeking a security operations professional. This role involves automating security infrastructure and conducting threat assessments. The ideal candidate should have a passion for security and automation, experience in multiple security domains, and solid programming skills. The company fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience with multiple security domains: Network, Cloud, Application Security.
• Ability to automate tasks using programming languages.
• Familiarity with threat assessments and security investigations.

Responsibilities

• Automate security infrastructure processes.
• Implement recommendations based on threat assessments.
• Involved in Threat and Vulnerability Management.

Skills

Programming with Python or Go

Linux shell usage

Network troubleshooting

Understanding DNS, SSL/TLS

Secure Identity Management

Continuous improvement mindset

Reliable availability

Tools

SQL

Pandas

Job description

Overview

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incentivising collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organisations and universities to solve problems.

The global security team is a tea of technologists that develop and contribute across the full security stack. You will be (or will become) a "T-shaped" individual with enormous potential to further your career in the security domain. The ideal candidate will be passionate about security operations and automation, with experience in more than one (Network security, cloud security, application security). The candidate will have a good ability to automate (using a language such as Python or Go) and understand risk-based approach to security.

What You\'ll Do

• Automate processes and procedures to create a highly resilient security infrastructure.
• Implement and make recommendations based on threat assessments at the network, server, and endpoint levels.
• Involved in Threat, Vulnerability Management and Attack Surface reduction exercises.
• Assist in performing investigations of anomalous activity and creating actionable reports to senior management.
• Analyze data sets and produce reports using basic tools (e.g. SQL, Python, Pandas).
• Work highly independently, with multiple stakeholders outside of the formal management structure.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You\’ll Need

• Comfort using a programming language for automation tasks (Python, Go, etc).
• Comfort using the Linux shell to understand and troubleshoot an overall system.
• Familiarity troubleshooting network issues in the stack.
• Understand DNS, SSL/ TLS, and how traffic on IP networks establishes end-to-end security and trust.
• Understand principles around secure Identity Management and Authentication.
• Passionate about high-quality work and continuous improvement.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Useful but not mandatory skills

• Relevant and well-regarded certifications in cloud computing such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS Professional or Specialty levels, Google Professional level.
• Advanced security accreditation such as CISSP, OSCP, CASP, Security+.