About the Role
We are seeking an IT Security Engineer with a strong Windows engineering background and practical exposure to modern platform security controls to join a global team dedicated to securing Jane Street’s IT platforms. You will help secure internal IT and remote working platforms through hands-on technical work, consultancy, and security influence. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong judgment in prioritizing remediation efforts, suggest mitigation focus areas, and provide technical advice and decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Proactively proposing, designing, testing, implementing, and documenting strategic security controls
- Coordinating and delivering security solutions across IT platforms while identifying opportunities to further automate intelligent workflows
- Building security controls that scale, investigating emerging threats, developing new security tooling, and driving vulnerability management initiatives
Requirements
- Proficient in securing Windows OS platforms and resolving complex technical issues in a fast-moving environment
- Hands-on experience utilizing integrated security technologies for safeguarding Windows operating systems, including application control, host-based firewalls, auditing and event monitoring, and disk encryption
- Skilled in the administration of endpoint security and vulnerability management solutions, including antivirus, anti-malware, EDR, vulnerability scanning, and patch management
- Knowledgeable about security best practices, including operating system hardening, privileged access management, and vulnerability mitigation
- Understanding of common threat tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and effective countermeasures
- Well-versed in Windows core infrastructure services (AD/EntraID, PKI)
- Eager to produce scalable and repeatable security practices through automation
- Understanding of security tooling and APIs
- Flexible, reliable, and highly collaborative approach to work
Skills
- Windows engineering
- Platform security controls
- Security consultancy
- Vulnerability management
- Endpoint security
- Antivirus
- Anti-malware
- EDR
- Vulnerability scanning
- Patch management
- Operating system hardening
- Privileged access management
- Threat tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- Windows core infrastructure services (AD/EntraID, PKI)
- Security tooling
- APIs
- PowerShell scripting
About the Company
- Jane Street's IT Engineering group is a highly dedicated team of engineers who monitor and manage our environment across a physical/virtual computing landscape spanning three continents.
- Your analytical thinking and expertise will be invaluable as we support the daily work of our colleagues and keep our systems operating at the highest standard.
