Cyber Security Engineer – FinTech Scaleup

About the role

We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to strengthen our detection, response and defensive security operations within a fast‑growing fintech scale‑up. You will work with product and technology teams to build secure, scalable financial systems.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and continuously improve the SIEM platform, including log source onboarding, correlation rules, alerting and dashboards.
• Own end‑to‑end audit log management, ensuring tamper‑resistant collection, retention and availability.
• Lead incident response activities from detection through containment, eradication and post‑incident review, and mature IR playbooks.
• Administer and tune core defensive tools such as EDR, email security and endpoint protection.
• Configure, tune and maintain the Web Application Firewall to protect web applications and APIs.
• Design and operate high‑availability log management using clustered technologies (e.g., Elastic, OpenSearch, Kafka).
• Mentor junior security engineers, reviewing their work and sharing knowledge.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology or a related field.
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in cybersecurity, security operations or a related area.
• Experience in fintech, banking or other regulated industries is a strong plus.
• Hands‑on experience managing SIEM platforms and large‑scale audit logging.
• Strong analytical mindset, attention to detail and proactive problem‑solving.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Required skills

• SIEM platform management
• Audit log management
• Log management with Elastic, OpenSearch or Kafka
• Open‑source security solutions
• Incident response
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
• Email security
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration and tuning