Information Technology Security Engineer

Industry leading, securities trading firm is looking for an IT Security Engineer with a strong Windows engineering background and practical exposure to modern platform security controls to join a global team dedicated to securing our IT platforms. In this role, you will help secure our internal IT and remote working platforms through a combination of hands-on technical work, consultancy, and security influence to the wider IT team.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong judgment in prioritizing potentially complex and extensive remediation efforts. We’ll lean on you to suggest where to focus our mitigation efforts, and to provide both technical advice and decision making on behalf of the group where needed.

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  Proactively proposing, designing, testing, implementing, and documenting strategic security control
• sCoordinating and delivering security solutions across our IT platforms while identifying opportunities to further automate intelligent workflow
• sBuilding security controls that scale, investigating emerging threats, developing new security tooling, and driving vulnerability management initiative
• sThis position sits within our IT Engineering group, and will monitor and manage our environment across a physical/virtual computing landscape spanning three continents

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  Proficient in securing Windows OS platforms and resolving complex technical issues in a fast-moving environme
• nt Hands-on experience utilizing integrated security technologies for safeguarding Windows operating systems, including application control, host-based firewalls, auditing and event monitoring, and disk encrypti
• on Skilled in the administration of endpoint security and vulnerability management solutions, including antivirus, anti-malware, EDR, vulnerability scanning, and patch manageme
• nt Knowledgeable about security best practices, including operating system hardening, privileged access management, and vulnerability mitigati
• on Understanding of common threat tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and effective countermeasur
• esWell-versed in Windows core infrastructure services (AD/EntraID, PK
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  Eager to produce scalable and repeatable security practices through automati
• onHave an understanding of security tooling and AP
• IsStrong Power Shell skills and an automation-first approach to security contro
• ls Cross-platform security engineering experience (Mac or Window