2027 Internship – Security Engineer

The role

You will help protect systems, data, and infrastructure behind global research and trading activities. You will work with Cloud, Infrastructure, and Network Operations teams to design and implement security controls. You will contribute to real security problems by building tooling, investigating attack techniques, and improving security automation.

What you will do

• Design and implement security controls across a complex, high-performance technology environment
• Build tooling and investigate emerging attack techniques
• Improve how security work is automated at scale
• Develop triage agents using MCP servers
• Reproduce emerging attack techniques in segregated lab environments to test detection systems
• Contribute to vulnerability research, security reviews, and remediation testing
• Build tools and automation for security assurance

Required qualifications

• Penultimate or final-year students pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s in a STEM discipline, such as Cyber Security, Informatics, Computing or a related subject
• On track for a 2:1 or above
• Understanding of security principles and technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanning, password management, encryption and secure coding practices
• Programming or scripting experience, particularly with Python or Bash
• Confidence working from the Linux command line, including familiarity with Linux/Unix system administration fundamentals
• Understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP and Ethernet
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and PromQL

Nice to have

• Interest in technology explored through hobbies, personal projects, academic work or open-source contributions

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance

Before you apply

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
• Selected candidates will complete a technical interview
• Shortlisted candidates will take part in interviews, either on-site or via Microsoft Teams

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating across liquid asset classes and markets worldwide. They use a scientific approach by bringing together data, research, technology and trading expertise.