Cybersecurity Engineer: Security Operations Center (SOC)
Jane StreetAbout the Role
Jane Street is looking to add a passionate Cybersecurity Engineer to its Hong Kong office to help protect the firm's employees, data, and infrastructure from the wilds of the internet. Cybersecurity Engineers are responsible for developing and using monitoring tools to guard the firm, as well as handling incident response and remediation when a threat is found.
The Cybersecurity team is a skilled group of programmers and security experts who are dedicated to keeping the firm safe, and who consider themselves tapped into developments in the broader cybersecurity space. In this role, you'll carefully consider the context of decisions and the tradeoffs being made in approaching cybersecurity issues, and apply a methodical approach to performing unstructured investigations to locate and repair the source of a security issue.
You will also act as an ambassador of best practices to the rest of the firm, helping bring everyone else along on the cybersecurity journey, learning from colleagues and passing that learning on to new analysts.
Responsibilities
- Developing and using monitoring tools to guard the firm
- Handling incident response and remediation when a threat is found
- Applying a methodical approach to performing unstructured investigations to locate and repair the source of a security issue
- Acting as an ambassador of best practices to the rest of the firm
- Practicing good personal cybersecurity hygiene and talking to others about it
- Passing that learning on to new analysts
Requirements
- Graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- An avid follower of cybersecurity news
- A strong programmer who can demonstrate high potential and an aptitude for learning
- Comfortable and interested in managing your code and configs in version control, and knowledge of your editor (we don't care which though)
- Familiar with threat modeling, and able to clearly communicate your understanding of the tradeoffs we’re making to internal stakeholders
- Able to explain the cybersecurity decisions you’ve made in your own life, and how you’ve approached thinking about those decisions
- Able to adapt to changing scenarios and make challenging decisions under pressure
- Humble attitude about what you know and don’t know; not afraid to ask questions and admit mistakes
- Curious problem solver with a positive, collaborative attitude
- Fluent in English