Lead Security Engineer

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Financial Services
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The Role
Leads cloud security engineering by designing, developing, and scaling AWS security solutions for governance, monitoring, auditing, remediation, and reporting. Builds and maintains software and infrastructure-as-code tooling, performs design and code reviews, validates AI-assisted security recommendations, manages deliverables, engages stakeholders, and mentors junior engineers while advancing secure and resilient engineering practices.
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Join us and make a real impact as you help shape the future of software security at one of the world’s largest and most influential companies. You’ll be part of a high-performing team delivering secure, innovative solutions that protect our business and clients. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, work with cutting-edge technology, and collaborate with talented professionals. We value your expertise and encourage you to bring your ideas to the table. Together, we’ll build a safer, more resilient digital future.

As a Lead Security Engineer in the Cloud Security Engineering organization, you will play a pivotal role in delivering software solutions that meet functional and user requirements while preventing misuse and malicious behavior. You will carry out critical technology solutions using tamper-proof, audit-defensible methods across multiple technical areas and business functions. You will help drive secure engineering practices and foster a culture of innovation and excellence. Your contributions will directly impact the security and scalability of our cloud environment.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Engage and improve the lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement
  • Develop and build solutions for cloud environment governance, protection, auditing, monitoring, remediation, and reporting
  • Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis synthesis, and security documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately
  • Design, develop, and improve services to scale with the firm’s cloud usage
  • Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software and tooling solutions
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Perform system design and code reviews
  • Advocate for engineering and operational excellence
  • Lead stakeholder interactions and mentor junior engineers
  • Apply reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations


Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience developing and architecting cloud-native applications with AWS services, including proficiency with Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and EKS
  • Hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Proficiency in developing enterprise software and multiple programming languages, preferably Python
  • CI/CD experience utilizing tools like GitHub and Jenkins, with familiarity in Agile development methodologies
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical design ideas to stakeholders
  • Ability to conceptualize, design, validate, and implement creative solutions to complex technical issues
  • Skill in analyzing system metrics and data to draw insightful conclusions and make forward-thinking decisions that prevent technical debt
  • Capacity to work independently and collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals
  • Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
  • Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code/security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations


Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

  • Cybersecurity knowledge
  • Experience with Azure, GCP, or other public cloud environments
  • Cloud certifications such as AWS Developer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect Associate


If you’re ready to make a difference and grow your career in a collaborative, innovative environment, we invite you to join us.

About UsJ.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
  
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the TeamOur professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience developing and architecting cloud-native applications using AWS services, including Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and EKS
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Enterprise software development experience using multiple programming languages, preferably Python
  • CI/CD experience with GitHub and Jenkins
  • Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for conveying technical design ideas
  • Ability to design, validate, and implement solutions to complex technical issues
  • Ability to analyze system metrics and data to support technical decisions
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively
  • Experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities in security engineering workflows
  • Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code and security recommendations
  • Cybersecurity knowledge
  • Experience with Azure, GCP, or other public cloud environments
  • AWS Developer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification

JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.

  • Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
289,097 Employees
Year Founded: 1799

What We Do

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.

Why Work With Us

Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.

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