Senior 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.

Senior Detection and Response Engineer at Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) will be tasked with improving and optimizing our capability to effectively monitor, detect, respond, and remediate security incidents.

You will be part of 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, whilst acting as an enabler. We work with 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 diverse and disparate data sources to detect threats

• 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

• Develop high fidelity security detections across our tooling suite

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve detection capabilities, including deploying new tools, log ingestion and enrichment, developing detection use cases and playbooks or designing automated response mechanisms

• Capable of proactively performing threat intelligence driven hunting 

• Liaise with external vendors / MSSP / third-party stakeholders as required

• Develop strategic objectives to increase the maturity of the Detection and Response function

Your present skillset

• Extensive hands-on experience in detection and response within enterprise security environments

• Demonstrable experience in creating customized security detection use cases

• Demonstrable experience in digital forensics analysis and incident response

• Demonstrable experience with building, troubleshooting and optimizing Detection & Response technologies (e.g., SIEM, Threat Intelligence Platform, Automation)

• 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 

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline development and deployment automation would be advantageous

• Programming/scripting language skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) would be advantageous 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across different organisation stakeholders

• Proactive mindset, capable of driving process improvements and automation initiatives

Base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $220,000 per year.

QRT Total Compensation includes discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.