--- title: 'IT Sec Operations Lead at Squarepoint Capital' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/it-sec-operations-lead-squarepoint-capital-london-4sdyjyvxakjq' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-03' --- # IT Sec Operations Lead at Squarepoint Capital - **Company:** Squarepoint Capital - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Posted:** 2026-10-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03 - **Apply:** https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/open-opportunities?id=8331080&gh_jid=8331080 ## Job description Team: Information Security Position overview The IT Sec Operations Lead will lead Squarepoint’s global security operations capability, covering threat monitoring, detection and response, incident management, forensic readiness, cyber recovery, and vulnerability operations. The role will protect the firm’s proprietary research, source code, models, data and trading technology while enabling a fast-moving engineering environment. ## Responsibilities - Own the Security Operations strategy, operating model, roadmap, service standards and day-to-day effectiveness. - Lead oversight of SOC and MDR services, aligning monitoring and detection coverage to Squarepoint’s priority threats and critical assets. - Drive detection engineering and threat hunting across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, SaaS, Linux, containers, repositories and data flows. - Lead material cyber incidents, coordinating investigation, containment, eradication, communications and recovery across relevant teams. - Maintain and exercise response playbooks for insider threat, IP theft, ransomware, identity or cloud compromise, supplier compromise and data-integrity events. - Establish forensic-readiness, evidence-handling and investigation practices suitable for legal, regulatory and disciplinary needs. - Work with Technology teams to establish rapid containment actions, secure restoration criteria and cyber-recovery assurance. - Provide operational leadership for vulnerability and exposure management, using risk-based prioritisation, service levels and escalation. - Define clear security operations metrics and executive reporting, and ensure actions from incidents and exercises are tracked to closure. - Build and develop the internal team and govern specialist providers through measurable outcomes and continuous improvement. Required qualifications - Significant experience leading security operations, detection and response, incident response or cyber defence in a complex technology environment. - Proven experience leading serious cyber incidents across technical, operational, legal, compliance and senior stakeholder groups. - Strong practical knowledge of SIEM, EDR/XDR, MDR/SOC services, detection engineering, threat hunting, identity and cloud telemetry, and incident case management. - Experience with incident playbooks, crisis exercises, containment, recovery, digital forensics and evidence handling. - Experience managing security service providers and translating tooling and contracts into measurable operational outcomes. - Ability to build capable teams, set priorities and deliver through influence across organisational boundaries. - Clear written and verbal communication, including concise reporting of risk, decisions and operational performance. - Working knowledge of NIST CSF and MITRE ATT&CK, or equivalent incident-handling and threat-informed defence practices. ## Preferred qualifications - Experience in quantitative finance, trading technology, investment management or another environment protecting high-value intellectual property. - Knowledge of Linux, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, identity infrastructure, repositories, data platforms or high-performance computing. - Experience integrating cyber response and recovery with operational resilience, business continuity and disaster recovery. - Relevant certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GNFA or CISM, or equivalent practical experience. ## What we value We are looking for someone who is calm under pressure, technically credible, pragmatic and collaborative. You should be comfortable creating structure in an evolving environment, making ownership explicit and focusing on measurable risk reduction rather than process or tooling for its own sake. ## About Squarepoint Capital ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Squarepoint Capital is a leading global quantitative investment manager that uses a rigorous scientific approach and state-of-the-art technology to construct diversified, systematic strategies for institutional clients. - **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed external funding; spun out from Barclays in 2014) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2014 (as an independent firm; the underlying business, nQuant, dates back to 2000 within Lehman Brothers and later Barclays) - **Founders**: Led by four founding partners (names not publicly disclosed); the original founders of nQuant continue to lead Squarepoint today. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Quantitative Investment Management - **Target customers**: Institutional investors (B2B) - **Mission / Purpose**: “Achieving high quality returns for our clients” through a systematic, diversified, and research-driven investment platform. ## Products & Services - **Quantitative Investment Strategies**: A diversified portfolio of systematic strategies spanning multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities), trading frequencies (high-frequency to long-term), and global markets. The majority of investments are based on rigorous backtesting on historical data. - **Technology & Data Platform**: A custom, nimble, and forward-looking software stack that enables seamless integration between research and trading, executing millions of trades per day. Includes low-latency trading systems and a world-class data infrastructure. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue is not publicly disclosed (LinkedIn estimates ~$12M, but this likely underrepresents a firm of this scale; the figure should be treated with caution). The firm is privately held and does not report earnings. - **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors; the firm is privately held by its founding partners. Alumni frequently move to top quant funds and tech companies (e.g., Millennium, Citadel, Qube Research & Technologies, Google, Jump Trading). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 33.9% year-over-year to approximately 1,801 employees (LinkedIn, 2025). The firm operates 17 offices across 8 countries and is actively hiring across technical, research, and finance roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep heritage**: The team’s quantitative roots trace back to 2000, with a proven track record through multiple market cycles. - **Scientific rigor**: A disciplined, research-first approach that relies on backtesting and systematic execution rather than discretionary bets. - **Scale and technology**: Executes millions of trades daily using a highly custom, low-latency platform developed in-house. - **Global diversification**: Strategies span asset classes, geographies, and trading frequencies, reducing reliance on any single market or style. - **Culture of ownership**: Privately held and led by its founding partners, fostering long-term thinking and accountability. ## Strategic Focus - **Diversification**: Continuously expanding into new asset classes, trading frequencies, and geographies. - **Technology investment**: Ongoing development of proprietary software and data infrastructure to maintain a competitive edge in research and execution. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring quantitative researchers, software engineers (C++, Python), platform engineers, and operations specialists across global offices. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Collaboration across teams, a flat structure with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and a focus on intellectual curiosity. - **Work environment**: In-office for most roles (offices in New York, Boston, London, Paris, Singapore, Bangalore, etc.). Some roles offer a remote work program, but the majority require physical presence. - **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(K) matching, disability and life insurance, paid sick days, generous PTO, paid volunteer time, free snacks and drinks. Offices are designed for in-person collaboration. - **Engineering culture**: Technology is considered core to the business; engineers work closely with quantitative researchers to build and optimize trading systems. Emphasis on C++, Python, Kubernetes, and low-latency systems. - **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and a global footprint offer opportunities for career advancement and international mobility. ## Sources 1. [squarepoint-capital.com](https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/) 2. [squarepoint-capital.com/about](https://squarepoint-capital.com/about) 3. [linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital) 4. 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