Security Engineer

Overview

Susquehanna is seeking a Security Engineer to joinourSydney team, supporting the firm's ambitious growthobjectiveswhile safeguarding ourinformation technology.Byleveragingthe experience and diverse backgrounds of our global security team members, we secure our environment and efficientlymaintainSusquehanna's competitive advantage. With the freedom to explore available technologies, wecandesign theoptimalsolution for each problem.

In this role, you will:

• Engineer and implement authentication and privileged access controls, harden endpoints and applications, implement threat prevention controls, and design and manage Susquehanna's cloud security posture.
• Work on diverse projects including new implementations, upgrades, and custom automation across the entire technology organization.
• Work with other technical and business teams, allowing you to understand the relationship between the solutions you are building, the technologies they interact with, and the business that isleveragingthem.
• Share responsibility for triaging and resolving connectivity issues (such as firewalls and proxies),assistwith walk-up enquiries, and partner with teams to build, troubleshoot, and support bespoke solutions.
• Adapt to evolving priorities and assumeadditionalresponsibilities as needed to support team and organizationalobjectives.

How Susquehanna's Information Security Team is Different:

• No two days are the same. Security challenges are best solved through a comprehensive multi-disciplinary approach,facilitatingcollaboration and exposure to high-end security technologies without having to silo your skills or career into artificially constrained buckets.
• We encourage curiosity and knowledge sharing.You'llbe working with engineers who are always pushing each other to be better, ensuringthey'realways learning, always teaching and always on thecutting edgeof developments and trends within Information Security.
• We take a proactive risk-based approach to solving security problems. Engineers are empowered toidentifyand remediate risks in our environment, tailoring solutions to our specific needs.
• Take your ideas frominceptionto completion - researching and designing innovative solutions to security problems, implementing them in a global technology environment, and supporting and adapting them to keep up with our fast paced ever changing business and security needs

What you can expect from us:

Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You'll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Infrastructure, Project Management and Strategy Developer Teams to deliver and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region and globally.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don't expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We're looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical fieldrequired. Equivalent practical experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 5+years of hands-on experience in a security engineering or operational security role, withdemonstratedexpertisein endpoint security and hardening, IAM/PAM, cloud and edge security, andrelated technicalsecurity controls.
• Good understanding of operating systems internals and hardening
• Experience with scripting or automation using languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar required.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, and switching, with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues end-to-end across large, distributed environments.

Equal Opportunity statement

We'recommitted to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and are happy to provide reasonableaccommodationsduring the hiring process.