Security Engineer

About Jump Trading

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, 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.

The Global Security Team

The global security team is a group of technologists who develop and contribute across the full security stack. As a Security Engineer, 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 such as Network security, cloud security, or application security. You will have a strong ability to automate using languages like Python or Go and understand a risk-based approach to security.

What You'll Do as a Security Engineer

• 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, collaborating 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 with troubleshooting network issues in the stack.
• Understanding of DNS, SSL/TLS, and how traffic on IP networks establishes end-to-end security and trust.
• Understanding of 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 Automation
• Threat Management
• Vulnerability Management
• Risk Assessment
• Network Security
• Cloud Security
• Application Security
• Incident Investigation
• Python/Go Programming
• Linux Administration