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About the Role
CMC Markets is seeking a Senior Platform Security Engineer to enhance the security and resilience of its customer-facing trading platforms. This hands-on role focuses on protecting trading platforms and APIs, embedding security throughout the software delivery lifecycle, and driving continuous improvements to the organization's platform security posture.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and continuously improve security controls protecting CMC's customer-facing trading platforms and APIs.
- Partner with Engineering, Development and DevOps teams to embed security throughout the design, development and operation of customer-facing platforms.
- Provide security guidance for new platform capabilities and technology initiatives, helping engineering teams identify security risks and implement appropriate security controls.
- Support and enhance platform security capabilities, including web application protection, identity security and cloud security controls.
- Review vulnerability assessments and penetration testing reports, partnering with engineering teams to prioritise and remediate security risks.
- Lead or support the investigation and response to security incidents affecting customer-facing trading platforms, services and customer accounts.
- Support the wider Security Operations function with technical expertise, investigations and security engineering initiatives.
- Drive continuous improvements to platform security through enhancements to security tooling, automation, monitoring and detection capabilities.
Requirements
- 5 years experience in Security Engineering, Platform Security or Application Security roles.
- Experience in financial services, fintech, trading, banking or another highly regulated environment is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience securing customer-facing platforms, applications and APIs, preferably within financial services, fintech or other highly regulated environments.
- Strong hands-on experience implementing and managing Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and other application-layer security controls.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorisation, identity providers and identity security concepts.
- Experience working with application, platform and cloud architectures, with the ability to identify security risks and provide practical security guidance to engineering teams.
- Demonstrated experience investigating and responding to security incidents affecting customer-facing platforms or digital services.
- Experience reviewing vulnerability assessments and penetration testing reports, prioritising security risks and driving remediation activities.
- Experience implementing and supporting security capabilities across application, platform and cloud environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively across both technical and non-technical teams.
- Experience within financial services, fintech, trading or other highly regulated industries is highly desirable.
Skills
- Platform Security
- Application Security
- Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
- Authentication
- Authorisation
- Identity Providers
- Identity Security
- Cloud Security
- Security Incident Response
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Penetration Testing
- Security Tooling
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Detection Capabilities
Location
- APAC
Work Type
- Onsite (five days in the office)
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Birthday off
- Free annual charity day
- $0 Trades for staff & family trading accounts
- Continuous learning and development offering
- Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub
- Retailer discounts
- Free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee
- Culture club activities
About the Company
- CMC Markets is a global leader in CFD trading and share investing.
- CMC Markets is powered by its people.
- CMC Markets is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work.
- We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone.