Security Operations Engineer in London

Freetrade's mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings. We're changing that. We're building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you're driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you'll fit right in.

2025 is a big year for us. In January, we announced a game-changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We'll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space. This year, we're accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We're building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We're also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.

The Opportunity: Step into a pivotal role as a Security Operations Engineer, where you'll be at the forefront of protecting our organization from an ever-evolving threat landscape. This is more than a traditional SOC role; it's an opportunity to actively drive and take ownership of our core security controls and culture, including email security, DLP, and endpoint protection. You'll use your hands-on experience to investigate and neutralize threats, improve our defensive tools, and play a key part in building a security-first culture. If you're a curious and resilient problem-solver who wants to move beyond just triaging alerts and make a tangible impact on our security maturity, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

If you're looking for an opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your impact, and help build a stronger security operations function, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Incident Detection & Response: Monitor and triage security events from SIEM, endpoints, email, and DLP systems, escalating when needed.
• Threat Hunting: Conduct proactive searches for potential threats using available tools and threat intelligence.
• Threat Intelligence: Track and report on emerging threats, including dark web activity and new attack techniques.
• Email Security: Investigate phishing reports, monitor email security systems, and build or refine prevention rules for new attack techniques.
• Endpoint & SaaS Security: Support incident remediation and enforce controls such as SSO, MFA, and secure data handling.
• Vulnerability Management: Run and track corporate vulnerability scans, coordinate patching, and monitor progress.
• Security Awareness: Improve the training content and monitor completion, contributing to a security-first culture.
• Data Loss Prevention: Investigate DLP alerts and suggest improvements to detection rules.
• Operational Improvements: Fine-tune alerts, reduce false positives, and document repeatable processes.

What You Bring

• Experience: 3-5 years in security operations, SOC, or a related role with demonstrated hands-on response experience.
• Technical Skills: Familiarity with SIEM, endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, and log analysis tools.
• Threat Knowledge: Understanding of common attack methods (MITRE ATT&CK, phishing, malware, insider threats).
• Hands-On Focus: Ability to triage alerts, investigate incidents, and apply technical fixes.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Key Attributes for Success

• Proactivity: Goes beyond reactive incident response to help improve processes and tools.
• Autonomy: Comfortable owning and solving medium-size problems with moderate support.
• Problem-Solving: Brings curiosity and persistence to uncovering issues and improving defenses.
• Collaboration: Works well with IT, engineering, and business teams to implement fixes and share insights.
• Resilience: Remains focused under pressure, especially during active incidents.
• Adaptability: Flexible in handling both structured processes and less-defined improvement work.

Benefits & Logistics

Freetrade is the place to accelerate your career. Our benefits package and ways of working are designed to attract and retain the most talented people who are dedicated to making an impact at Freetrade. Here's what's on offer in 2025:

• We're operating in a hybrid model: 3-days in-office / 2-days from home.
• Work from home days: Wednesday, Friday.
• Flexibility for those who need it: We have a hybrid working model, but life happens. If you need flexibility let's talk about it, whether you're a parent or have other care responsibilities.

Values: At Freetrade we live and breathe our values: Honesty, Focus and Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview!

Benefits In London

• Competitive salary – carefully benchmarked.
• Bonus Scheme – join us and share in our growth. Bonuses are linked to both company success and your individual impact.
• Holidays – 25 days plus UK public holidays. Your birthday off, plus one extra day for every year at Freetrade.
• Enhanced pension – We'll match your contributions up to 5%.
• Group Life Insurance – Protect your loved ones with coverage at 5x your salary, ensuring financial security in any circumstance.
• Private Health Insurance – Which includes access to high quality medical care, mental health support, dental and vision plans, Wellness programs and preventive care initiatives are also provided to ensure the wellbeing of your entire family.
• Income Protection Cover – Safeguard your income with comprehensive coverage, ensuring financial stability in the event of illness or injury.
• Enhanced parental leave – Time off when it matters most.
• Learning & Development – We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.
• Cycle to Work scheme – Get a high quality bike and gear through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost with tax-free monthly installments.
• Paid Sick Leave – Receive 10 days of fully paid sick leave each calendar year.

Following the completion of our acquisition by IG Group, you can expect our benefits package to further improve as we align with the broader offerings available across the group.

Interview Process

We keep things simple and transparent. Our process typically includes:

• Initial Screening – A quick chat with one of our Talent Partners.
• Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.
• Live Technical interview – Show us how you think and solve problems.
• Final Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you.