Lead Security Engineer - Cloud Security Integration

As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls organization, you are an integral part of team that works to deliver software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions. 

The Integration Security team leads and coordinates all security engineering efforts aligned to the critical integrations space across JPMorgan. We design, engineer & integrate security controls & believe in seamless embedded security & all ways of engineering & baking security in from the start for frictionless value delivery to our business and customers. We are customer focused with a strong drive to improve engineers experience & opening secure pathways for information flows supporting organization efficiency and our business.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative security solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down technical problems


• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others


• Minimizes security vulnerabilities by following industry insights and governmental regulations to continuously evolve security protocols, including creating processes to determine the effectiveness of current controls


• Works with stakeholders and business leaders to understand security needs and recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability


• Conducts discovery, vulnerability, and threat scenarios on multiple organizational assets to identify and assess if vulnerabilities are present, and executes threat modeling for multiple applications including external applications interacting with the internal JPMorgan Chase network


• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience


• Skilled in planning, designing, and implementing enterprise level security solutions in a public cloud environment (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure)


• Advanced in one or more programming languages (i.e. Java, Python, C/C++)


• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle to include secure development practices.


• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, applicant resiliency, and security


• Hands on expertise in Kubernetes and AWS cloud services with an emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing tools such as Terraform. 


• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools (Jenkins), version control tools (BitBucket, Git), managing and tracking work using management tools like Jira.


• Experience following agile practices like Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development(BDD)


• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little oversight


• Strong communication skills demonstrating the ability to present and explain ideas and concepts.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS Certified Practicioner/Cloud Engineer/Software Development Engineer/Cloud Security Engineer/Cloud Security Architect/Application Architect


• Google Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer  and/or Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate


• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)


• GIAC Public Cloud Security (GPCS)


• CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)


• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and/or Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)