Cybersecurity Engineer – Cloud, Infrastructure & AI Security

  • Full-Time
  • Remote
  • Remote
  • Posted on October 23, 2025

Quantitative Trading Firm #015

(NYC / Hybrid – Elite Tech-Driven Financial Environment)

Step into One of the Most Technically Demanding environments in the World—where Low-Latency Trading meets Massive Scale Cloud infrastructure and Cutting-Edge AI/LLM workloads. This role is built for a curious, Innovative Cybersecurity Engineer who thrives on solving and protecting systems that push the limits of performance.

You’ll be Complex Challenges embedded in a global Enterprise Security team that owns End-to-End protection of modern compute, cloud-native platforms, and Advanced AI systems. From Shaping Next-Gen IAM to hardening High-Performance hybrid cloud, your work will directly influence the security posture of a firm where milliseconds mean millions.

What You’ll Do

  • Architect and implement modern security controls that drive secure design patterns across cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), hybrid compute, and AI/ML systems.
  • Engineer IAM solutions that are frictionless for developers yet airtight for auditors.
  • Automate Detection & Response for config drift, anomalies, and AI-specific security signals.
  • Design Vulnerability Management Frameworks that prioritize what truly matters in high-speed environments.
  • Collaborate with DevSecOps, Infrastructure, and AI Engineering teams to write runbooks, harden pipelines, and bake security into the SDLC without slowing innovation.
  • Instrument observability for AI + Cloud workloads, ensuring resilience at the intersection of speed and scale.

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of Security Engineering experience, ideally in complex/high-performance environments.
  • Strong background in software development (Python preferred) and the ability to build automated controls at scale.
  • Proven Hands-on work in a DevSecOps lifecycle: Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD pipelines, public cloud, and AI workloads.
  • Deep Linux Chops (Debian experience a huge plus!).
  • Experience securing SaaS platforms a bonus.
  • Above all: someone who Loves Building resilient, High-Impact Solutions in fast-moving technical ecosystems.

Why You Should Chase This

  • Ownership & Autonomy: You’ll have the freedom to shape global security systems.
  • Impact at Scale: Your decisions directly secure one of the fastest and most Complex Infrastructures in Finance.
  • Tech Playground: Cloud-native, hybrid compute, AI/LLMs, containers, observability—you’ll touch it all.
  • Elite Environment: Work alongside some of the Sharpest Minds in the Industry.

To apply for this job email your details to Graham.Gates@TechExecOnline.com

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