Job Description
CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
As a Senior Information Security Operations Engineer, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the success of the Information Security operations team, Information Security program, and the firm. Innovate and improve security posture and architecture by working with the Information Security team and more broadly and collaboratively across all CTC teams and several technologies and business processes.
What You’ll Do
- Propose, architect, and implement new and improve existing security solutions, in alignment with business goals, through collaboration with other teams.
- Provide analytical and technical security recommendations to other team members, other technology teams, security management, and business stakeholders.
- Act as liaison to other technology teams to effectively communicate, architect, and deliver security solutions.
- Lead or assist with incident response and system stability issues.
- Assist with daily security operations, act as second tier to analysts, help improve their processes. Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
- Provide input into and help develop and improve policy, guidelines, and procedures and participate in the creation of enterprise security documents (policies, standards, baselines, guidelines, and procedures)
- Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the IT security industry including awareness of new or revised security solutions, improved security processes and the development of new attacks and threat vectors.
What We’re Looking For
- Self-motivated and directed with proven analytical and problem-solving abilities, with attention to detail. Skilled in working within a collaborative environment.
- In-depth technical knowledge of and experience with one or more on-prem and cloud infrastructure technologies (networking, Windows, Linux, Active Directory or equivalent, containerization and virtualization, PKI, etc.).
- In-depth experience with administration and architecture of one or more common security technologies (SIEM; firewalls; IDS/IPS; EDR; vulnerability management; IAM; MFA; SAML; orchestration and automation, etc.).
- Preferred experience with Security Orchestration, Automation, Response (SOAR).
- Preferred familiarity with scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell.
- Preferred experience with implementing and running secure cloud solutions.
- Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operational performance, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and provide quality seamless customer service.
- Eager to continue to grow career and knowledge.
Our Benefits
We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.
(Disclaimer: Interns and Contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.