Cybersecurity Analyst

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The Role

The Schonfeld Cybersecurity Operations team is seeking an analyst—a hands-on individual who sets the standard for incident response, threat management and risk mitigation while driving continuous improvement of our security controls. The Cybersecurity Analyst must proactively adapt to the evolving threat landscape and keep us ahead of emerging threats. This is not a passive career opportunity, but rather one that requires a passion for security and rigor to protect the business.

What you’ll do

• Incident Response – Prepare for and assist in incident response, including on-call rotation.
• Threat Monitoring – Continuous review of security alerts in partnership with vendors.
• Threat Hunting – Identify previously undetected attacks. Feed detection pipeline and improve security posture.
• Threat Intelligence – Analyze and incorporate actionable intel within detection, monitoring and hunting disciplines. Track and model adversaries to focus program activities.
• Vulnerability Management – Monitor internal/external attack surface, validate vulnerabilities, and prioritize remediation.
• Security Posture – Assess risk of changes to IT and security systems. Maintain coverage of controls and implement preventative/detective measures.  Conduct risk assessments.
• Penetration Testing – Coordinate vendor testing. Drive finding remediation providing expert guidance and verification.
• Threat Detection – Introduce new and enhance existing rules. Increase fidelity and create response runbooks.
• Automation – Implement methods (SOAR and scripting) to speed delivery and maintain consistency.

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• 2-3+ years of experience in a security operations role
• Proven experience triaging and responding to a significant volume of security events and cyber incidents, ideally in a high-alert environment, utilizing processes aligned with industry standards such as NIST, SANS PICERL, or similar frameworks.
• Hands-on experience managing, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities specifically within large-scale Linux environments.
• Expertise utilizing SIEM platforms to conduct advanced searches, build custom detections, and tune alerting logic.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining automated remediation workflows using SOAR platforms.
• Demonstrated understanding of threat intelligence and threat hunting concepts, methodologies, and best practices.
• Strong foundational information technology knowledge: Windows, Active Directory/Entra, Linux, networks, cloud and mobile systems.
• Experience conducting tabletop exercises and adversary emulation.

We’d love it if you had:

• Financial services experience
• Hands-on experience with Crowdstrike Next-Gen SIEM, Logscale/CQL, Falcon Fusion SOAR, Falcon Foundry.
• Experience performing threat hunts in Linux and Windows environments, including cloud, on-premises, and containerized platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience utilizing common penetration techniques and tools.
• One or more scripting languages (e.g., Python & PowerShell).
• Prior web application assessment experience.
• Certifications, including but not limited to: GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GPEN, OSCP

Who we are

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.

Our Culture

At Schonfeld, we’ll invest in you. Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact. We encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $120,000 and $135,000. The expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.