IT Security Engineer
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We are looking for an Infrastructure Security Engineer with a strong Windows engineering background and practical exposure to modern platform security controls to help our global team secure Jane Street’s IT platforms.
In this role, you’ll need strong judgement and discerning taste to prioritise potentially complex and extensive remediation efforts.
You'll help decide where we focus our resources, providing technical advice and making decisions on behalf of the group where needed.
We're looking for builders: people who spend their time writing code and automation (e.g. PowerShell modules, Python) and integrating security products via their APIs, rather than primarily configuring and operating the tools themselves.
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About the Position
We are looking for an Infrastructure Security Engineer with a strong Windows engineering background and practical exposure to modern platform security controls to help our global team secure Jane Street’s IT platforms.
In this role, you’ll need strong judgement and discerning taste to prioritise potentially complex and extensive remediation efforts.
You'll help decide where we focus our resources, providing technical advice and making decisions on behalf of the group where needed.
We're looking for builders: people who spend their time writing code and automation (e.g. PowerShell modules, Python) and integrating security products via their APIs, rather than primarily configuring and operating the tools themselves.
Responsibilities
- Propose, design, test, implement and document strategic security controls.
- Coordinate and deliver security solutions across our IT platforms.
- Identify opportunities to further automate intelligent workflows.
- Secure internal IT and remote working platforms.
- Build security controls that scale.
- Investigate emerging threats.
- Develop new security tooling.
- Drive vulnerability management initiatives.
About You
- Proficient in securing Windows OS platforms and resolving complex technical issues in a fast-moving environment.
- Have hands-on experience utilising integrated security technologies for safeguarding Windows operating systems, including application control, host-based firewalls, auditing and event monitoring and disk encryption.
- Skilled in administering endpoint security and vulnerability management solutions, including antivirus, anti-malware, EDR, vulnerability scanning and patch management.
- Knowledgeable about security best practices, including operating system hardening, privileged access management and vulnerability mitigation.
- Understand common threat tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and effective countermeasures.
- Well-versed in Windows core infrastructure services (AD/EntraID, PKI).
- Proven experience automating workflows in PowerShell or other scripting languages.
- Fluent in English.
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