Detection and Response Engineer

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. 

A Detection and Response Engineer at QRT will be tasked with improving and optimizing our capability to effectively monitor, detect, respond, and remediate security incidents. 

We are building a global security team, implementing highly automated security operations processes and systems to meet dynamic company growth. You will have an opportunity to design and build systems from scratch, interact with various technologies, influence architecture, decide on specific technologies or tools, and work on cutting edge projects. 

As the security team, our top priority is to ensure that our data and assets are safeguarded using controls, which do not disrupt the business, but act as an enabler. We work across many stakeholders at all levels across the business, including IT, Cloud and Engineering. 

QRT runs a hybrid technology stack across multiple data centers, extending to various locations across the public cloud. The combination of on-premises and cloud allows us to achieve performance and low latency requirements, which are important for quantitative and systematic investments.  

Your future role within QRT

• Monitor and analyse security events and alerts from various sources to detect threats 
• Contribute towards designing and continuously improving QRT’s strategic security tooling 
• Implement automation procedures to improve the security team’s efficiency 
• Coordinate incident response activities including investigation, containment, remediation, recovery and lessons learnt 
• Deploy, tune, administer and implement security detection and response solutions, tools, configuration and related processes 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve detection capabilities, including deploying new tooling, log ingestion and enrichment, developing detection use cases and playbooks and designing automated response mechanisms 
• Proactively perform threat intelligence driven hunting  
• Liaise with external vendors / MSSP / third-party stakeholders as required 

Your present skillset

• Demonstrable experience in creating customized security detection use cases 
• Demonstrable experience in digital forensics analysis and incident response 
• Demonstrable experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewall/IDS/IPS tools 
• Experience implementing automation procedures for seamless security operations 
• Understanding of different adversary tactics, techniques and procedures 
• Technical understanding and knowledge of network and operating system fundamentals 
• Experience working in hybrid environments (public cloud/on-prem) utilising various operating systems  
• Programming/scripting language skills (such as Python, Bash, PowerShell) is advantageous  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across different organisation stakeholders 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Proactive, highly motivated and independent 

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.