Security Analyst

Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

The Role: We are seeking a diligent and driven security operations specialist with strong hands-on technical skills, proven problem solving ability and excellent communication skills. As an security operations specialist at WorldQuant you will work closely with our technologists, researchers and portfolio managers to ensure systems are following best practices, perform incident response, provide patch and vulnerability remediation guidance, and support the identity and authorization infrastructure of the firm.

Responsibilities (including but limited to):

•         Research CVEs and other threat intelligence to formulate and deploy a response
•         Operate and manage WorldQuant’s secrets and authentication management tool instances
•         Develop tooling for continuous audit, code analysis and other security analysis activities
•         Monitor and operate detection tools and respond to identified security issues in the environment
•         Provide operational support for Authentication, Identity and other security infrastructure.
•         Operate and improve the firms security monitoring and detection and infrastructure
•         Provide customers support for foundational components such as Kerberos, SSH, SSL and more.

Requirements:

• Degree in a technical or quantitative discipline from a top tier University
• Solid understanding of UNIX security.
• Knowledge of industry standard tools beneficial - (eg gitlab, nix, redhat linux, claude, jira, etc)
• Scripting experience, preferably in python.
• Experience operating security infrastructure, developing integrations of security products.
• Ability to communicate and design solutions related to security from first principles.
• Experience with Linux, Kerberos, SSL, SSH and  Active Directory
• Experience with agentic development
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package 
• Core benefits include: premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan  
• Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave 
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, guest speakers, share and learn events, global conferences 
• Regular offsite team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with our local and global teams 
• Employee resources groups with strong diversity and inclusion culture

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