Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Please note that we will only be able to accept candidates who have the appropriate rights and documentation for employment in India. Axi is a leading global provider of margin and deliverable Foreign Exchange, Contracts for Difference (CFDs), and Financial Spread betting. Our business has evolved into a world-class, multifaceted brokerage with offices in six regions. With heavy investment in the latest trading technology, Axi seeks to offer the most comprehensive end-to-end trading experience available, servicing traders of all levels from beginners to institutional-level clients.

🏢 About Axi

Axi is a leading global provider of margin and deliverable Foreign Exchange, Contracts for Difference (CFDs), and Financial Spread betting. Our business has evolved into a world-class, multifaceted brokerage with offices in six regions. With heavy investment in the latest trading technology, Axi seeks to offer the most comprehensive end-to-end trading experience available, servicing traders of all levels from beginners to institutional-level clients.

🎯 The Role

You will play a key role in keeping Axi colleagues safe in the world of Cyber. With a key focus on engineering and automation, this role focuses on implementing strategic solutions to security problems, providing a secure environment for our customers and colleagues to operate in without large operational overheads. Ranging from DevSecOps practices implementing security controls as code to policy-based controls across our network or identity environments.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Operate as a core member of the Security team and act as a subject matter expert for Axi in partnership with Axi strategic partners.
• Keep abreast of and play a hands on, investigative role in security incidents providing essential information to key control points.
• Drive improvements in threat intelligence capabilities aligned to industry best practice.
• Research security trends and emerging technologies, identify our business and technical requirements, perform technical evaluation and support deployment of multi-regional security solutions.
• Review implementation of security controls and evaluate effectiveness, make recommendations for improvements, and execute against those recommendations.
• Play a key role in projects through design, pilot, and deployment for new security solutions across multivendor cloud environments.
• Take a leading role in specific projects aligned to key skillsets ensuring delivery to a high standard.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Security Engineering, or Security Operations
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
• Experience managing Azure security services including Azure Firewall, NSG, DDoS Protection, Conditional Access, Identity Protection, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
• Strong understanding of cloud security governance, risk management, and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, or SOC 2
• Experience with SIEM and SOAR platforms for security monitoring and incident response
• Proven experience in threat hunting, threat intelligence, security incident investigation, and remediation
• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and securing CI/CD pipelines
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform under pressure during security incidents
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills
• Proactive mindset with a passion for continuous security improvement.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with security automation and orchestration
• Exposure to AI-assisted security tools such as Microsoft Security Copilot or Microsoft Copilot for Security
• Experience leveraging AI-driven threat hunting and incident investigation capabilities

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive and attractive compensation.
• Extensive learning opportunities, including professional certifications and continuous development.
• 18 annual leave days and 12 sick leave days per year.
• Public holidays as declared by the local government.
• Maternity leave as per applicable laws.
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
• Opportunity to work with global teams and modern, large-scale trading platforms

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Please note that we will only be able to accept candidates who have the appropriate rights and documentation for employment in India.