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About Us We're a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we've achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
We're a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we've achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
Over 2,000 of the world's leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world's central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading, and risk.
Over 800 of the world's leading banks and broker dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world's financial market infrastructure.
ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe,
ION Markets Information Security Team is looking to hire a Senior Platform Security Engineer that support the division's security strategy through definition and implementation of security controls across our platforms, infrastructure, and operational workflows.
As the Senior Platform Security Engineer, you will play a key role in safeguarding our systems,clients and Intellectual Property. You'll sit at the intersection of security operations, governance risk, and product security, helping to design, operate, and improve a robust security posture for our services.
You will be serving as both a hands-on technical leader and operational responder, working closely with Product, infrastructure and Security Operations teams.
Ideally the candidate will have come from related security and architecture roles, focusing on security operations and product development.
Support design and execution of the information security risk management framework
Work with Legal, Risk and IT to ensure compliance with NIS2, DORA and/or ISO27K where relevant.
Maintain and improve policies, standards and control documentation aligned to regulatory and client obligations.
Support product and engineering teams in adopting DevSecOps and secure design principles.
Serve as a senior incident responder, addressing emerging threats across the environment.
Collaborate with infrastructure, network, and cross-functional teams to contain, investigate, and remediate security incidents.
Conduct root cause analysis and participate in forensic investigations as needed.
Enhance system visibility by expanding logging coverage and implementing additional monitoring capabilities.
Maintain, update, and regularly test incident response runbooks, containment strategies, and escalation protocols.
Lead the end-to-end vulnerability management process for ION Markets systems, from identification to remediation.
This role may require some overnight, weekend and on-call activities.
Fluency in Italian and English, as the role requires regular interaction with internal stakeholders, regulatory bodies and clients in the Italian Market
Degree/diploma/certifications in a technology-related field and/or relevant working experience; 7+ years' experience in Information Security with proven experience in operations & compliance roles.
Must have fundamental programming/scripting capabilities (e.g. python, PowerShell, bash, etc.)
Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
Exceptional attention to detail and quality
Endpoint security concepts, controls, and best practices for Servers (e.g. Windows and Linux)
General IT networking concepts, protocols, standards and network security concepts, controls, and best practices
Cryptography fundamentals and data security controls and best practices
Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Job function Information Technology
Industries Software Development
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