Eightcap is a dynamic online trading provider committed to delivering exceptional trading tools and professional insights that empower smarter trading decisions. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with a global footprint across the UK, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and the Bahamas, we blend the agility of a fintech innovator with the stability of a regulated financial institution.
The Cyber Security Engineer is responsible for delivering and continuously improving Eightcap’s security capabilities across security operations, cloud and corporate security architecture, identity and access, and GRC initiatives. The role contributes to protecting Eightcap’s trading platforms, client data, corporate systems, and global operations, while ensuring security supports innovation, regulatory compliance, and sustainable business growth.
This role sits within an ‘engineering only’ security team. At Eightcap, all security team members are engineers, and responsibilities that may sit as separate functions in traditional security teams, including elements of SOC, GRC, architecture, and general security support across the business, are shared across the team by design. We prioritise reducing manual effort through automation, sophisticated tooling, and scalable engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver and improve security capabilities across cloud, corporate, and trading environments.
- Build and maintain security tooling, controls, and automation to improve resilience and efficiency.
- Contribute to system design, infrastructure changes, and technology decisions with a security focus.
- Enhance detection, alerting, and response workflows to increase signal quality and reduce manual effort.
- Support incident response, including investigation, containment, remediation, and post-incident improvements.
- Strengthen cloud security architecture and partner with engineering teams to remediate risks.
- Implement and improve identity and access controls, including MFA, SSO, RBAC, and privileged access.
- Contribute to access governance, lifecycle controls, and automation of identity processes.
- Support governance, risk, and compliance activities, including control implementation and audit readiness.
- Provide practical security guidance to stakeholders across engineering, product, and business teams.
- Improve operational playbooks, processes, and overall security visibility.
- Contribute to a collaborative security culture with shared ownership across functions.
Requirements
- Experience in security engineering, cloud security, or infrastructure security within a modern enterprise.
- Strong hands-on capability building security tooling, automations, or internal applications.
- Familiarity with modern development practices, including Git, CI/CD, and controlled releases.
- Experience securing corporate environments, including endpoints, SaaS platforms, networks, and third-party systems.
- Strong understanding of identity and access management, including MFA, SSO, RBAC, and lifecycle controls.
- Experience in security operations and incident response, including SIEM, XDR, or SOAR tooling.
- Ability to contribute across security domains, including operations, engineering, and GRC.
- Sound judgement, initiative, and ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills across technical and business teams.
Benefits
At Eightcap, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where people feel empowered to be themselves and supported to reach their full potential.
Working here means operating in a real-time global environment, where decisions matter and impact is visible. But it also means being part of a culture that values collaboration, growth and balance.
A rewarding career is about more than daily tasks. It’s about feeling valued, supported and challenged in the right ways.
We offer a number of benefits, including:
- Ongoing investment in your career development.
- Wellness and lifestyle perks like monthly corporate massages.
- Parental leave.
- Employee-purchased leave.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Multicultural environment.
- A dynamic and collaborative team culture.
- Great CBD location with easy access to public transport.
- Regular social activities.
Are you interested in this opportunity but don’t meet every requirement? Eightcap endeavours to create an inclusive and diverse workforce by offering an opportunity for the right people and so we encourage you to apply.
