"secured a position as" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone obtaining a job or role. Example: After months of searching, I finally secured a position as a marketing manager at a top advertising agency.
Since then the quartet has wisely dropped "young" from its name and, as the Danish String Quartet, has secured a position as a significant ensemble.
In 1796 he secured a position as an inspector of mines, but, because he was from a wealthy family, he soon was able to resign and devote himself to geological studies.
The most famous of all English diarists, Samuel Pepys, began his diary in 1660, just before he secured a position as clerk of the acts to the navy board, and brought it to an end nine years later because he believed (mistakenly) that his eyesight was deteriorating so badly that he risked blindness.
But shares of Amazon, the once-struggling online retailer that has secured a position as one of the best-known brand names on the Internet, fell sharply in after-hours trading yesterday as investors worried that the company's price-cutting strategy would erode its long-term profit potential.
Spitzer managed to graduate, and secured a position as an instructor in the psychiatry department (he has held some version of the job ever since), but he is a man of tremendous drive and ambition — also a devoted contrarian — and he found teaching intellectually limiting.
In need of a new patron after the execution of Yekutiel in 1039 by those who had murdered his king and taken over power, Ibn Gabirol secured a position as a court poet with Samuel ha-Nagid, who, becoming the leading statesman of Granada, was in need of the poet's prestige.
He arrived in Dover at nine years old, after his mother had managed to secure a position as a housemaid.
After obtaining their degree they must pass an eight-hour state examination and then begin the interview process to secure a position as a school administrator.
Securing a position as a new manager takes more than simply being good at your current job – you also need to develop a whole new skills set.
The mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato has covered a lot of territory in her operatic appearances, in the process swiftly securing a position as one of the most engaging, consistently satisfying singers around.
He was a major fund-raiser for President George W. Bush and used his connections to help Mr. Christie, his former law partner, secure a position as the United States attorney for New Jersey.
