# Associate - InfoSec - Sr. Systems Engineer - LME

**Company**: 港交所科技（深圳）有限公司
**Location**: Shenzhen
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Security Development Engineer (Associate) to play a hands-on role in developing security solutions for infrastructure and platforms supporting the London Metal Exchange (LME).

The ideal candidate will focus on application, data, and operating system security in a highly regulated, on-premise financial market infrastructure environment.

Key responsibilities include:

- Designing, implementing, and abstracting infrastructure security controls through new or upgraded APIs across platforms

- Securing Kubernetes platforms (e.g., OpenShift), covering cluster hardening, network segmentation, access control, and runtime protection

- Implementing and managing cryptographic controls, including TLS, encryption at rest, certificate and key lifecycle management

- Supporting data protection initiatives integrated with infrastructure and platform services

- Hands-on design, implementation, and operation of enterprise-wide Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls

- Performing security hardening and baseline configuration for servers, platforms, and middleware

- Supporting and participating in penetration testing and red teaming activities, focusing on infrastructure and Kubernetes attack paths

- Working closely with Application Security and IAM specialists to deliver end-to-end security solutions

- Building solutions that support investigation and reduce response times of security incidents

- Collaborating directly with London-based stakeholders in English-speaking environments

Requirements:

- 3-8 years of hands-on experience in development and cybersecurity

- Strong foundation across application and infrastructure security (business applications, firewalls, databases, operating systems, hypervisor, network)

- Solid experience securing Kubernetes platforms, ideally including OpenShift

- Practical understanding of cryptography and secure communication

- Experience working with on-premise or private infrastructure in regulated environments

- Understanding of offensive security concepts, such as attack techniques and lateral movement

- Experience in a foreign financial institution (exchange, clearing house, investment bank) is highly preferred

- Strong problem-solving capability, hands-on mindset, and genuine interest in security technology

- Fluent spoken and written English is mandatory

## Skills

### Required
- cybersecurity
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- cryptography
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- infrastructure security
- application security

### Nice to have
- experience in a foreign financial institution
- offensive security concepts

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