Information Security Engineer
Virtu Financial is a global multi-asset market maker and liquidity provider, including digital assets.
About Virtu Financial
Virtu Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VIRT) is a leading principal market maker and liquidity provider across asset classes, with a real and current crypto business (zerohash market-making partner 2026, spot digital-asset liquidity via Talos, AP/market maker for US crypto ETFs).
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will perform security assessments and analysis, design and deploy security solutions, and coordinate with global IT teams to mitigate risks. You will work 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
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
