Information Security Engineer
Virtu Financial is a global financial services firm and market maker providing liquidity, execution services, analytics, and trading technology across multiple asset classes.
About Virtu Financial, Inc.
Virtu Financial, Inc. leverages market-structure expertise and technology to provide liquidity and transparent trading solutions across equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income, cryptocurrency, and commodities. Its offerings include market making, execution services, liquidity sourcing, multi-asset analytics, data products, compliance tools, and broker-neutral workflow technology.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Perform security assessments and analysis, design and deploy security solutions, and coordinate with global IT teams to mitigate risks across vulnerability management, breach detection and prevention, network monitoring, user behavior analytics, security automation, incident management, and application security.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree preferably in IT, computer science, or a related discipline
- 4-5 years of information security engineering experience
- IT experience
- Threat management
- Vulnerability management
- Risk mitigation
- Windows fundamentals
- Unix fundamentals
- PowerShell
- Python
- Bash
- Security automation
- Tool development
- Security event management
- Incident management
- Prioritization
- Communication
- Writing
- Crypto experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Perform security assessments and analysis
- Design security solutions
- Implement security solutions
- Coordinate with global IT teams to mitigate risks
- Evaluate and deploy vulnerability management solutions
- Evaluate and deploy anti-malware solutions
- Evaluate and deploy IDS and IPS systems
- Evaluate and deploy SIEM systems
- Evaluate and deploy network flow technologies
- Evaluate and deploy user behavior monitoring
- Monitor emerging threats in financial services
- Support application security initiatives
- Perform static analysis
- Manage dependencies
- Implement secure CI/CD practices
Benefits
- Projects with quick life cycles, from concept to production in three months
- Small, dynamic team environment where everyone is visible
- Direct exposure to business decision makers and senior leaders
- Investment in the technology department
- Learning-focused teams
- Community that values hard work and work-life balance