About WorldQuant
WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform. WorldQuant is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Excellent ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement. Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it. 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 a 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
•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 firm's security monitoring and detection and infrastructure
•Provide customer 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 (e.g. 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
Benefits
•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
