Application Security Engineer, IG Group
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
2+ days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)
The UK's No.1 trading provider
Job no longer available
The UK's No.1 trading provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
We challenge anything that holds investors back.
Role
Who you are
- You must have a keen interest in practical application security, both in determining risk from new findings and in mitigating vulnerabilities
- Excellent communication skills are very important: you will need to successfully explain technical issues quickly across the business
- While we don’t require formal qualifications in security, proven security experience will be a major advantage
- Recent development, DevOps or software testing experience would also be very useful
- Most importantly: a willingness to learn, to quickly understand new systems and the confidence to adapt security ideas to changing circumstances
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Application Security Engineer with strong communications skills to help us take development security pipelines and practices to the next level
- While the role will at times focus on specific software or tools, all Application Security team members must excel at summarising and communicating software vulnerabilities and their risks quickly to any layer of the business
- You will need to research new technology and processes while also ensuring that older systems continue to adhere to our security requirements
- A range of languages and systems: from Java, Python and C++, through automation and pipelines to cloud and containerisation
- Communicating security across the business: technical details and management summaries
- Configuring security controls, assessing and interpreting data and making decisions
- Security alerts, taking an active role as the team quickly move to define risk and take action
- Working with development and architecture teams to ensure security is embedded in design and implementation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1974 by Stuart Wheeler as a UK-based spread betting company for gold, IG Group, abbreviated from Investors Gold Index, was initially set up to allow people to speculate and trade on the price change of gold without owning physical gold. And in the year 2000, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and its gradual evolution into the world of fintech began.
By 2011, the company had played a part in numerous international buyouts before narrowing its focus down to financial wagers. During the latter half of that decade, IG shut down its binary options trading platform and focused instead on building an investment portfolio with partner BlackRock Investments, all whilst maintaining its Forex and CFD trading processes. Since then, it has become a fast-paced market leader in the investment space.
In recent years, IG Group has developed major platforms for various trading actions and has grown profit and revenue significantly. Alongside this it has acquired a number of companies, including tastytrade and Freetrade, and launched its own crypto product, making it the first UK-listed company to launch crypto trading to retail investors. This further proves how much of a staple IG Group is in the world of financial trading.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Think big
- Deliver at pace
- Raise the bar
- Lead and inspire
- Champion the client
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Breon Corcoran
(Group CEO)Joined IG Group as CEO in January 2024. Prior to this, they were the CEO of WorldRemit and a Non-Executive Director at Tilney Group.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at IG Group
- Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture.
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