Security Engineer

About Jump Trading Group

Jump Trading Group is committed to world-class research, empowering 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, fostering constant innovation through fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incentivizing 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 organizations and universities to solve problems.

About the Role

The global security team is a team of technologists who 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 area (Network security, cloud security, application security). You will have a good ability to automate (using languages such as Python or Go) and understand a 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.
• Be involved in Threat, Vulnerability Management, and Attack Surface reduction exercises.
• Assist in performing investigations of anomalous activity and creating actionable reports for 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.
• Passion for high-quality work and continuous improvement.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Useful (but certainly 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+.

Key skills/competency

• Security Engineering
• Security Operations
• Automation
• Python
• Go
• Network Security
• Cloud Security
• Application Security
• Threat Management
• Vulnerability Management