Senior Security Engineer
Our financial client in Zurich is seeking a Snr Security Engineer to join their team in a permanent role.
The role reports to the Chief Information Security Officer and working closely with the IT operations teams, the security engineer will carry out tasks to ensure the IT environments are managed in a security and safe manner.
OUR REQUIREMENTS:
- Technical degree from a reputable university in information technology or information security
- Several years of experience in a comparable role with medium to large solution projects
- High affinity for secure software delivery
- Familiar with technologies and methods such as secure development lifecycle, threat modelling, CI tooling, secure design principles and web security
- Hands-on technologist with DevOps and IT architecture skills
- Deep technical understanding of networking, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, authentication/authorization and modern security technologies (SIEM, EDR, UEBA, AI/ML etc.)
- Experience in the financial or trading industry
- Great communication skills and outgoing personality comfortable in interdisciplinary teams
- Fluent English
YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Detect and assess security events and incidents across the enterprise
- Ensure security in software development projects by drawing up threat models, creating security concepts, applying secure development principles and other methods
- Plan, configure and implement network threat detection and response systems
- Coordinate with the CISO, the Head of Development and the Head of Operations to review & triage suspicious events
- Collect, aggregate, analyse and triage information from multiple logs/events
- Develop orchestration and automation between security tools
- Understand the global threat landscape through working with threat intelligence resources to maintain awareness
- Assist with containment of threats as well as remediation tasks during or after an incident
- Provide assistance to software engineers and architects in the area of security.
- Track latest security innovations and keep abreast of latest cyber security technologies