Durlston Partners
Senior Security Engineer - Hedge Fund
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Senior Security Engineer – Systematic Hedge Fund – London
Up to £200k Base + Generous Bonus
I'm working with a London-based hedge fund that's investing properly in its security function for the first time at scale - and they're hiring a generalist Senior Security Engineer to help build it.
About the Role
Established, highly profitable multi-strategy fund with a serious technology footprint
Small, senior technology team - engineers from trading firms, big tech, and top-tier startups
Genuine autonomy: no legacy security org, no ticket queue, no committee to design around
This is a broad, hands-on role covering the full surface: cloud, applications, endpoint, identity, and everything in between. You're not owning one narrow vertical - you're the person the business relies on across all of it.
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What you'll be working on:
- Owning and evolving the firm's security posture end to end - AppSec, CloudSec, infrastructure, identity, endpoint
- Automating security operations - vulnerability management, asset inventory, patching, detection tuning
- Securing trading and research infrastructure without slowing down the people using it
- Embedding security-first principles across engineering, research, and the wider business
- Partnering with technology leadership on architecture decisions, third-party risk, and regulatory expectations
What they're looking for:
- Strong hands-on security engineering experience - hedge fund, trading firm, big tech, or high-growth startup
- Genuine breadth: comfortable moving between cloud, application, and endpoint security in the same week
- Solid engineering fundamentals - Python, Go, or similar; you automate rather than administer
- Experience owning cloud security at scale (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- A builder - someone who writes the playbook rather than following one
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What's on offer:
- Up to £200,000 base + generous discretionary bonus
- Work alongside a genuinely strong, small technology team with no bureaucracy
- Full scope over the security function - your decisions become the standard
- In-office, central London - high-performance environment for people who want ownership
If your background is in a hedge fund, prop trading, banking, big tech, or an elite startup - this is exactly the kind of role worth a conversation.
If you are interested, please apply! Alternatively, feel free to reach out to david@durlstonpartners.com for a confidential discussion.
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