Senior Cyber Security Engineer (Usa)

Trexquant is a growing systematic fund adviser with a core team of highly accomplished technologists. We apply a wide variety of statistical and machine learning techniques to build investment portfolios and trade our client assets in global equity and derivatives markets. Our global team is composed primarily of research professionals with advanced science, math and technology degrees, with locations in the US, China and India.

We're looking for a motivated and technically adept security engineer to support the Technology and Compliance teams in engineer, enhancing and maintaining the Firm's security program and infrastructure. This opportunity is ideal for a security professional who strives to work on diverse projects in an academically-influenced technologist culture, with mentoring and guidance from veteran staff.

Responsibilities

• Explore, develop and implement innovative security solutions, protocols, and procedures to protect the organization's systems and networks.
• Maintain current security platforms and set up preventive measures.
• Assist in reviewing cybersecurity protocols designed to protect the Firm's proprietary data, systems and infrastructure in accordance with industry regulations and best practices.
• Monitor vulnerability awareness platforms, penetration testing results, and other risk analysis to identify and mitigate security weaknesses.
• Help maintain and review data flow monitoring and configure logging tools to capture and detect suspicious behavior.
• Assist compliance team with incident response procedures to identify, manage, and mitigate security incidents and breaches, and establish a protocol for security incident reporting.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to carry-out periodic risk assessments and work closely with consultants to ensure ongoing compliance and security readiness.
• Stay up to date with the latest security trends, technologies, and threat intelligence.