Windows Security Engineer: Automate & Scale IT Security

Jane Street Group, LLC; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street is seeking an IT Security Engineer with a strong Windows engineering background to join our global IT Engineering team responsible for securing internal IT and remote platforms through hands-on work, consultancy, and security influence across the engineering group.

You will prioritize remediation, design and test strategic security controls, and coordinate security solutions across IT platforms while seeking opportunities to automate intelligent workflows.

Qualifications

• Proficient in securing Windows OS platforms and solving complex issues.
• Experience with integrated security technologies for Windows OS, including app control, firewall, auditing, and disk encryption.
• Experience administering endpoint security and vulnerability management (AV, anti-malware, EDR, patching).
• Knowledge of OS hardening, privileged access management, and vulnerability mitigation.
• Understanding of common TTPs and effective countermeasures.
• Experience with Windows core services (AD/EntraID, PKI).
• Ability to automate security practices via scripting (PowerShell).

Responsibilities

• Proactively proposing, designing, testing, implementing, and documenting strategic security controls.
• Coordinating and delivering security solutions across our IT platforms while identifying opportunities to further automate intelligent workflows.
• Building security controls that scale, investigating emerging threats, developing new security tooling, and driving vulnerability management initiatives

Skills

Windows security

Endpoint security

EDR

Vulnerability management

OS hardening

Privileged access management

TTP awareness

Automation scripting (PowerShell)

AD/EntraID

Tools

EDR tools

Antivirus / anti-malware

Vulnerability scanning tools

Patching tools

SIEM

Job description

Jane Street is seeking an IT Security Engineer with a strong Windows engineering background to join our global IT Engineering team responsible for securing internal IT and remote platforms through hands-on work, consultancy, and security influence across the engineering group.

You will prioritize remediation, design and test strategic security controls, and coordinate security solutions across IT platforms while seeking opportunities to automate intelligent workflows.