IG Group

About the Company

We’ve been at the forefront of trading innovation since 1974, taking on the challenge to deliver an unmatched experience for our clients and raise the bar for tomorrow’s opportunities.

Today, we’re a global fintech company incorporating the IG, tasty, IG Prime, Spectrum and DailyFX brands, with a presence in 18 countries across five continents – Europe, North America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

We’re an organisation of positive problem-solvers, united and inspired by our purpose, which is to power the pursuit of financial freedom for the ambitious. Our award-winning products and platforms empower go-getters the world over to unlock opportunities around the clock, giving them access to over 19,000 financial markets.

Today, more than 400,000 clients call IG Group home.

IG Group Holdings plc is an established member of the FTSE 250 and holds a long-term investment grade credit rating of BBB- with a stable outlook from Fitch Ratings.

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Company Name

IG Group

Job Title

Senior Security Operations Analyst

Job Description

Job Title

Senior Security Operations Analyst

Job Description

As one of Europe's leading investment platforms, security at IG is a top priority and our Security Operations team is looking for a Senior Security Operations Analyst to help further enhance our security framework.

Who Are We

Hello, we’re IG Group. No, not Instagram – though we're a pretty big deal ourselves. We’re a global, FTSE 250-listed company made up of a collection of progressive fintech brands in the world of online trading and investing. The best part? We’ve snapped up many awards for our top-class platforms, forward-thinking products, and incredible employee experiences.

We believe in financial freedom. And our purpose is to help ambitious people achieve it. Around 400,000 people use our groundbreaking technology and forward-thinking platforms to trade the financial products they know and love.

Did we mention we have offices in 18 countries? Yes, when you join IG Group, you'll have the chance to work across multiple brands with people all over the world. We work in cross-functional teams, focused on delivering at pace to improve the experience of traders on our platforms.

Your Position Within The Team

IG’s Security Operations team (SOC) is responsible for managing security-related events within IG. The team's goals are to ensure that security incidents adversely affecting the business are quickly diagnosed, workarounds are determined, proper root cause analysis is performed, and actions are taken to prevent the issue from reoccurring.

The Security Operations function is vital to the organisation. It ensures that company information and systems are protected from unauthorised access, disruption, modification, or destruction. This is accomplished using various operational security controls, processes, and policies.

What You’ll Do

Security Monitoring

Drive the creation and refinement of security monitoring rules, techniques and processes.
Proactively hunt for evidence of threats or compromise using all available tools.

Incident Management

Investigate and resolve escalated security incidents both independently and by leading a team of SOC colleagues.
Ensure the defined playbooks are followed correctly, and accurate logs are made of all actions during incident response.
Support and mentor colleagues with best-practice incident management techniques and behaviours.
Perform root cause analysis, recommend process improvements, and write final post-incident reports.

Project Delivery

Take part in the team’s project delivery initiative, rotating between the following roles on a 1-3 monthly schedule:

Vulnerability Management – maintain regular scans, interpret results, identify asset owners, track remediation activities and report on the agreed SLAs.
Security Controls Administration – maintain availability and functionality of all security controls; implement new and advanced features where available; write technical documentation and manage changes.
SIEM Maintenance & Content – maintain the availability of the underlying infrastructure, develop new alerts, field parsers, models and automated playbooks, and integrate new log sources where appropriate.
Threat Intelligence & Threat Hunting – provide, develop and integrate external threat intelligence data into the team’s detection capabilities; perform proactive threat hunts based on working hypotheses, and implement subsequent SIEM alerts where required.
Purple Team & Scenario Exercises – regularly test the team’s detection capabilities, develop scenario-based training, and organise purple team exercises, both in-house and with third-party providers.
Insider Threat – maintain and develop the Data Loss Prevention policies in line with the company’s data classification requirements, and implement exceptions for business-approved procedures where required. Improve the detection and response capabilities of the remaining security controls with a focus on insider threats.
Escalation Analyst – support analysts during incident response and take the lead in more complex investigations; validate true positive security incidents, ensuring all playbook actions have been completed reliably with an incident timeline populated, and provide training sessions for other analysts.

Reporting & Documentation

Assist with the preparation of regular reports and the collection of defined metrics.
Take an active role in the creation and continual improvement of SOC process and procedures documentation, as well as the refinement of manual and automated workflows and playbooks.

Other Responsibilities Aligned With a Senior Analyst Position

Lead the training and development of other SOC team members, sharing knowledge and demonstrating best practices by example.
Lead internal projects to improve the effective operation of the SOC, such as contrasting competing tools or technologies, re-designing existing security controls and assessing the impact of changes to IG’s IT environment.
Take an active role in external projects as the security SME ensuring that operational security issues are considered and implemented appropriately.

The Way We Work

We also think hard about our ways of working as a company. At IG Group, we’ve set out five target behaviours that we expect everyone to strive to achieve in all that we do:

Lead & Inspire: Leading teams in a way that drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm;

Think Big: We focus on the problems that most move the needle of commercial outcomes;

Champion the client: We always keep the client's needs front of mind and deliver as much value for them in all that we do;

Deliver at pace: We work to ensure nothing stands in the way of fast delivery of sustainable growth for our business; and

Raise the bar: We raise the bar by taking ownership of outcomes and being accountable for making things better across IG.

What You’ll Need

This is an experienced role, and therefore candidates are expected to convincingly satisfy most of the listed requirements. Successful candidates will demonstrate an independent and self-motivated approach to continuing the development of their skills and knowledge.

4 - 10 years of experience within operational IT or security roles, with a minimum of 2 years SOC.
Deep familiarity with one or more SIEM tools is.
A strong understanding of technical IT concepts is required, including:
Windows and Linux operating systems and system administration
Networking, including TCP/IP and other common protocols
Microsoft Active Directory
Command line interfaces and scripting
Understand the role, benefits/downsides, and standard use cases of technical security products, such as firewalls, anti-virus, web proxies, SIEM, IDS/IPS, DLP, and EDR.
Familiarity with vulnerability scanning and penetration testing tools and techniques.
Qualifications

A university degree in one of the following fields is preferred (but not required):

Cyber / Information Security, Digital Forensics, Ethical Hacking
Computer Science, Software De...

London, United Kingdom

On site

04-03-2025

Company Name

IG Group

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Job Description

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Job Description

So, who are we?

Hello, we’re IG Group, an FTSE 250 Fintech that provides cutting-edge mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade Stocks & Shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.

We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. We’re global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. We’re hungry to move faster, ship better products for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently to create better experiences for our customers.

We work in cross-functional teams and are laser-focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth.

Your team

You’ll be working as part of IG’s Core Dealing software engineering team.

The Core Dealing team is responsible for developing and maintaining applications that perform order booking, trade execution, position/money/risk management and account valuation.

Your role in the Team’s Success

In your role, you’ll be developing these low latency, high throughput, distributed systems that are at the heart of IG’s business. Ensuring systems are highly performant and resilient.

As a highly skilled Senior Engineer, you’ll play a leading role as part of an agile team of engineers combining hands-on development with utilizing your exemplary engineering skills and experience to help mentor and drive continuous improvement in the team.

What You’ll Do

Lead, analyse, define and implement complex software projects.
Drive continuous improvement in software delivery across the team and the organization. Providing mentoring and guidance to ensure the team has proficient skills and employees the right techniques to deliver quality software quickly.
Hands-on development working across the tech stack utilising skills to quickly get across new systems and technologies and deliver value.
Writing automated testing frameworks, adding comprehensive test coverage (including functional, security and performance testing) and ensuring these are run as part of a CI/CD pipeline to assert quality without manual intervention.
Continually innovate, assessing new technologies, architectures and engineering techniques and looking to apply these across both the team and the wider organization.
Develop performance testing frameworks and utilise these to measure systems performance and drive improvements.
Interact directly with business stakeholders to drive the development of new features to grow the business.

How We Work

We try to take a thoughtful approach to our ways of working as a company. We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office – which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other.

When It Comes To How We Deliver, There Are 5 Things We Want Everyone To Do To Drive High Performance, Better Learning And Career Satisfaction

Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm

Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes

Champion the client: Understand and prioritise the client's needs

Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;

Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback

We believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We’re committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realise our vision and strategy, that’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey.

Learn more about our D&I approach here.

What You’ll Need For This Role

10+ years of professional commercial software engineering experience
Ability to quickly learn new systems and technologies and a proven track record of continually improving and innovating throughout your career as a software engineer.
Experience providing technical leadership in a cross-functional team for complex projects. This should encompass analysis/requirements definition through architectural and low-level design to implementation and quality assurance.
Performance testing and optimisation skills utilised to measure and understand the capacity/latency of systems and how to scale them.
Experience mentoring other engineers and instilling in the team the required skills and working practices to deliver great software at pace including:
Test Driven Development
Pair Programming
Conducting concise, constructive and direct peer reviews
Continuous Delivery: CI/CD pipelines with all testing / verification performed automatically in the pipeline
DevSecOps
Excellent core Java skills as part of a wider set of software engineering skills that should span multiple languages and frameworks including but not limited to:
Distributed systems using in-memory data grids (Coherence, Ignite)
Spring Frameworks / SpringBoot
Messaging technologies: JMS (AMQ) / Kafka / HTTP (REST APIs)
Database technologies: Oracle DB, SQL, Hibernate, Flyway
Containerisation (Docker, Nomad)
DevOps tools: CI/CD pipelines, build tools (Maven, Gradle) etc.
Ownership of production systems and drive to continuously improve them alongside troubleshooting abilities to quickly diagnose and solve any production issues that arise.
Engaged with the latest technology trends and consistently looking to innovate techniques and technologies to provide the best possible software solutions. Ability to evaluate new technologies, assess fit for usage and define patterns to integrate and use these to add required functionality.
The Perks

Your growth fuels our success!

Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.

Competitive salary
Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
Private medical cover for you and your family
Life insurance
Contribution to gym memberships
25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total
The option to buy or sell holiday days.
Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform
A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
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
Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund
Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents

Learn more about the Perks here!

Join us for this exciting journey.

Apply now!

Number of openings

1

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

20-03-2025